[TriEmbed] OSH Park and Kicad

[Pete Soper]

I was actually going to mention another detail and when I trimmed the 
message back I broke the grammar. Oh well.

I find the incentive for sharing boards by pcbs.io interesting, 
especially in so far as a ton of folks will submit Eagle .brd files. 
Whether Cadsoft ignores this and risks fouling up licensing in the 
future or makes a stink, possibly driving folks away from Eagle, will be 
interesting. But first folks are going to have to start using pcbs.io.

Speaking strictly for myself, the $1 and possible first class postal 
advantage is not at all interesting in return for betting I'll get 
consistent results matching OSH Park. However, in the interest of 
science I'll submit a simple design to pcbs.io and one other vendor so 
we can look at them all in August.

On the subject of others, I'm preparing to try out Elecrow (Chinese 
vendor). Their panelization, v-grooving, and metal stencils seem very 
attractive.

OSH Park hasn't changed their pricing or offerings in forever, no doubt 
because you don't tend to mess with success. But they'll respond to the 
extent these other vendors start to take revenue from them.

-Pete


On 06/10/2016 01:13 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote:
> The vendor choices for prototype PCBs in this country has really 
> warmed up (and of course with pcb.ng there's assembly offered).
>
> OSH Park accepts native Kicad files now:
>
>    http://blog.oshpark.com
>
> Also on that site is an arrangement of embedded videos and details for 
> Chris Gammell's updated Kicad rev 4 "bootstrap tutorial":
>
> https://blog.oshpark.com/2016/05/06/getting-to-blinky-with-kicad-4-0/
>
> -Pete
>
>
>
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