> For the soldering issue, I am thinking that there are people on the list that > already have the skill and tooling, and might be willing to run a batch or two > for a nominal fee. "Many hands make light work" so if (big > IF) a batch of boards gets made, there may be an inquiry made for soldering > them.
All you need is a soldering iron with a small tip. With good eye-sight, or a magnifying lamp, you can solder individual pins of a 0.5mm pitch chip. Or use the flood solder and de-wick method. > A few years back (maybe more) I had Sparkfun make some boards for me. > The price was very good, but I had to wait a few weeks for them to fill a > panel, then send the job to China, have the board house find a space in their > normal production schedule, then ship the panel to SF. SF would then break > the panel out and ship. It seemed to be the best deal going at the time, but I > guess hobby fab has come a long way since then? They forked off another company to do that, www.batchpcb.com. They fill a couple of panels a day now. Still a two week turn around to get the boards built, but it's hard to beat the prices for one or two small boards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
