I just recently discovered SeeedStudio's PCB service. I've ordered a few components from them, but only recently really looked at the economics of their PCB fab service. It is BY FAR the cheapest option I know of for small run protos, at least if your boards are less than about 16Sq. In. (and especially i they are <4 Sq. In.).
Ten 10x10cm boards are $50, ten 5x5cm boards are $30. You can subtract an extra $5 if you don't need e-testing. That includes top and bottom silk screens and solder masks, traces down to 6mil... Basically everything that other places charge more for, Seeed (not the extra "e" in Seeed) includes in their ridiculously cheap price. Note, my first batch of boards is in the mail now, so I can't actually comment on their prices yet, except to note that if you don't skip the e-testing, your boards are 100% guaranteed. I should have my boards in another week or two (They shipped from China on the 22nd), so I'll have a better idea of the quality then. http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=pcb+fusion&x=0&y=0 or http://tinyurl.com/PCBFusion On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:06 PM, rocko <[email protected]> wrote: > I know the name is kinda lame, but I was up all night > finishing my little proto board and decided to give > it that name, you know lack of sleep and all. > > I'm always making little projects with the 4000 series cmos > chips, mostly oscillators for mini synth/noise boxes, and needed > something a little better than vero/strip board after breadboarding. > > the board is only 7.38 sq inches, BatchPCB wanst $18 for one board. > But if I order from Golden Phoenix it's only about $7. which aint > too bad. > Advanced Circuits charges less than $4 per board, but I gotta order > like 150 of them. > Don't really need that many, I suppose i could sell what I don't > use, but this isn't that useful of a board, not sure if anyone else > would be interested. > > Any way I've attached a .png from the 3d viewer. > I know it's not much, but it fulfills a need, at least for me. > Suggestions as always. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > > >
