Cloud-Based Circuit Board Assembly

Re:Cloud-Based Circuit Board Assembly by sciguy77 on Monday March 31, 2014 @03:51PM (#7503686)

> Using CircuitHub’s “Part Rank” the community decides which parts should be used. When all of the designers are using the same 10K resistor or Atmel chip, we can buy 10,000 of them instead of just 6 for your project alone.

YES! As someone who has bootstrap designed many PCB boards I am still skeptical about how cheap this will actually be, but I'm interested. I've generally kept costs around $100 per prototype board by using OSH Park to make the boards, Pololu for the stencil, and assembly by myself and a toaster oven. The downside of course is that this way takes more time and effort on my part. It would take a HUGE price drop to be cheaper than one night of my time + $100 + 2 week wait for PCBs though.

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Re:Cloud-Based Circuit Board Assembly by EChrisDenney on Monday March 31, 2014 @06:05PM (#7504532)

sciguy77, Chris from Worthington Assembly here.

We're interested too. Using this technique though, we've already saved customers thousands (literally thousands, just on one job) vs. quoting it independently. Try uploading your project to see how it compares. No CC or any like that required.

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