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It does look interesting, although the $949 design fee is steep. In all honesty, you can get pretty far with KiCAD, some data sheets, Google, OSH Park & DigiKe
by lsllc 6y ago
It does look interesting, although the $949 design fee is steep. In all honesty, you can get pretty far with KiCAD, some data sheets, Google, OSH Park & DigiKey. Basically the cost to you is your time & beer money.
Having said that, to go from prototype to production you need to have a professional engineer properly (re-)design the board (e.g. so it doesn't catch fire or generate interference).
- SoSoRoCoCo 6y agoFrom a different perspective: I was looking into having this done at my company in 2015 and the cheapest startup cost I could find was $10,000 (someplace in S.E.A). We have a few dozen customers that we supply custom boards with, but we send them Gerber file and a DigiKey BOM, this is within the realm of making some key customers happy without having to wince at our budget sheet.
- monocasa 6y agoI'd be one of those customers. $1k versus $10k means I stop spending time on the weird boards for manufacturing fixtures, and get back to working on something that my customers actually care about at the end of the day.