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Re:KiCad 6.0.0 by fortysixdegrees on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:55PM (#29678954)
What assembly house did you use?
Re:KiCad 6.0.0 by fpgaminer on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:00PM (#29679309)
JLCPCB; turn time has been about a week and then a few days for DHL to drop it at my door. Their website is very buggy, and the placement preview is useless, but they do have a real engineer review everything before assembly so all my boards have been assembled correctly thus far. They even caught one of my mistakes before.

I recommend finding parts using LCSC's website (their parts supplier), as it has more useful parametric search. Then cross reference to JLC's to double check pricing and availability.

Re:KiCad 6.0.0 by fortysixdegrees on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:08PM (#29679352)
Interesting. I'm flirting with the idea of ordering boards with all the easy to get discretes on there then finishing by baking on the hard to get chips I have in stock with lower temp solder paste. I would need to cut out the parts of the solder mask with components on there, or maybe I can do that at the Gerber phase
Re:KiCad 6.0.0 by stavros on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:23PM (#29679107)
I use JLCPCB for mine and am extremely satisfied.