Re: gEDA-user: FT232R

[Bill Gatliff <bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

William Estrada wrote:
>> If you've got just a few minutes to learn PCB, it will save you a lot 
>> of time and headache on the perf board.  I've done it both ways!  
>> 1-week turn on a $33/2 layer/30 qu in board from 4PCB.com will save 
>> you a lot of trouble.  Min quant for orders from a .edu address is 1, 
>> so it's pretty darn cheap.  Otherwise it's a min of 4.
>>     

I'll second 4pcb.com.  They're awesome.

They even worked with me to deal with a board that was too small for 
them to handle (less than 1"x1")--- they asked me to just tile the 
layout and then mark score lines on the silkscreen layer.  They took 
care of the rest.  20 minutes of phone time at 9p CDT, it was definitely 
above and beyond the call of duty.  I won't even consider anyone else now.

At one time they were working with an assembly house, but I don't see 
any mention of that now.  Screaming Circuits is just too expensive, they 
want $700 to place 35 relatively ordinary SMT components on a single 
board!  I think that comes to about $1400/hr plus parts costs.  If 
anyone wants that kind of service, let me know: I'll do it for half 
that.  :)



b.g.

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Bill Gatliff
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