![]() ![]() ![]() In more electronics related news, I’ve been working on a simple board using DipTrace. The awesome picture of the Fluke board has now earned its spot as a blog header.I call it the “dancing transistors” banner. The sidebar is now present on all posts, not just the front page for easier navigation. Continue reading → Posted in Tutorials, Uncategorized | Tagged DipTrace, Dorkbot, DRC, Gerbers, Layout, OSH Park | 8 Replies Blog update and some musings on EDA tools Lets walk through the steps of ordering these boards. So a 2 square inches board in three copies will cost you $10 delivered from a US based board house! That definitely opens the door for quick prototyping of pretty much anything! After having used other company’s prototyping services, I must say OSH is also by far the most user friendly. The cost is very reasonable ($5 a square inch) and you get three boards. He runs a community PCB service that groups orders and orders them periodically on a common panel, sharing costs between all people. The remaining options are a few China based places such as Itead Studio, Seeed Studio ,PCB Pool and Batch PCB ran by Sparkfun, and an OSH Park ran by Laen from Dorkbot. ![]() The usual ways of ordering PCBs are rather expensive, with just tooling fees in hundreds of dollars. Well, my test design is complete and now I need a few prototypes to play with. ![]()
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