Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market
by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @08:08PM
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For one-off boards bigger than a few square inches I like 4PCB.com. $33+shipping for a 2-layer board, 5 day turnaround, up to 60 square inches for the fixed price. Minimum quantity 1. For contrast Seeed charges $4.90/sq inch for 2-layer and 5-day turn, minimum quantity 5. $66 for their 4-layer boards, though "only" 30 square inches. And they have a 1-day turnaround bare-bones prototyping service: those boards have no solder mask, but they credit the price of the bare-bones boards to your production order, so it ends up being a fast PCB prototyping service that only costs shipping). They're in the US too, so shipping is faster than the Chinese companies.
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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market
by Animats on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @08:35PM
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There are tons of board houses. What's unusual about Seeed is that they will do one-off assembly for a reasonable price, provided you design to their standards.
Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market
by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:30PM
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True, just mentioned 4PCB because they've had very good service in my experience (as a hobbyist/student). I've also used Seeed, they are quite nice, especially for small boards.
This reminded me of pcbshopper.com, it's a pretty neat comparison service for PCB houses. The data isn't always perfectly accurate though, especially because it doesn't take sales or other special pricing into account.