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PCB Business Card
- jpm_sd 5y agoIf it doesn't do anything, why not use paper?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- kennywinker 5y agoBecause a bunch of fiberglass, epoxy, layers of plastic inks, and copper that have been shipped from china will last much much longer in the landfill.
- utopcell 5y ago:-)
- unwind 5y agoTwo obvious (?) reasons: - it stands out,which might be good for personal branding reasons, - it physically shows off skills in pcb (and graphical) design.
- sschueller 5y agoUsing Inkscape instead of an EDA...
- jpm_sd 5y agoIt doesn't, though. PCB design is about building a working circuit. This is... not that.
- can16358p 5y agoPrestige.
- fxtentacle 5y ago@author: I don't get why you ordered this from JLCPCB in Shenzhen when there's aisler.net in Europe, which would have been much cheaper. No shipping fees and no import taxes.
- detaro 5y agoAisler would be more expensive for 10, and only do green soldermask.
- hvgk 5y agoCrappy email support - I mean really bad. Don’t invert layers properly. No electrical test. Drill accuracy problems. Nope. JLC every time here. Never a problem.
- avian 5y agoI've ordered several PCBs from Aisler exactly because they were cheaper than vendors from China when accounting for shipping to EU, import duties and my nerves dealing with customs. I never had quality problems. I remember reading an email with the report from an electrical test from one of my boards, so I don't know why you say they don't do it. I only contacted support once and it took them 2 weeks to respond. Could be better I guess, but my experience with other PCB companies tends to be worse. I'm used to never getting any replies at all. I did feel kind of cheated when they sent me an elaborate market research questionnaire. In exchange they offered in-store credit. I took the time to fill it out and send it to them, but I never got the credit they promised. I never contacted them about it because it wasn't such a big deal, but it still left kind of a sour taste.
- fxtentacle 5y agoThanks for sharing your experience :) I haven't had any issues so far, but then again I also didn't need their support yet. With JLCPCB on the other hand, I've had things stuck in customs for 2-3 weeks multiple times due to documentation issues and then I had to hunt down someone at JLCPCB with the authority to provide me with a fixed invoice. That said, I've heard that the JLCPCB DDP terms work great (where they pre-pay customs for you) but they didn't allow that in my price range.
- PMunch 5y agoCould be interesting to create one based off-of flexible PCBs. That would be closer to an actual business card as well. Of course bonus points if it actually does anything.
- Loic 5y agoReally nice work, but why an @gmail.com email when you spend so much money and time on creating a unique identity like that? Just get a domain and "own" your identity end-to-end. Yes, "own", because a domain is just rented out, but better than being owned by Google.
- Hanqaqa 5y agoAuthor here. Yes! That was one of my main concerns. I have my own email domain, but it is a .xyz domain and I have had some people struggling with the QR code on the back, some QR code apps don't recognise webpages in the .xyz domain (looking at you Xiaomi camera app). They just recognise it as plain text. So you have to copy and paste it into your browser. So I am a bit self conscious about having to explain that that thing is an email address. Will probably add it on the next batch though.
- app4soft 5y agoMarco Vazquez[0] wrote in the `README.md`: > In this repository I will explain the steps I followed to create this Business Card made out of PCB material inspired by Chris Tully's card from Hackaday[1] [0] https://github.com/Hanqaqa https://github.com/Hanqaqa [1] https://hackaday.io/project/67644-pcb-business-card https://hackaday.io/project/67644-pcb-business-card
- ghostly_s 5y agoInspired? It's a literal copy of the linked card.
- techbio 5y agoHow could it only be a copy, when great artists steal? https://lifehacker.com/an-artist-explains-what-great-artists-steal-really-me-1818808264 https://lifehacker.com/an-artist-explains-what-great-artists...
- moffkalast 5y agoIt's not stealing, it's code reuse taps temple
- eunos 5y agoLol there's a software called svg2shenzhen?
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- aetherspawn 5y agoFun game, what does svg2newyork do and is it better than svg2texas?
- wyldfire 5y agosvg2nyc resets itself on new years day. svg2texas fails EMC tests in winter.
- aetherspawn 5y agosvg2melbourne generates latte art stencils from svg inputs.
- jjoonathan 5y agosvg2texas doubles the size?
- mNovak 5y agoActually very useful. It's sadly difficult to go from dxf (e.g. from a CAD software) to gerbers for PCB. Inkscape + svg2shenzhen handles it reasonably okay.
- kingcharles 5y agoWhooosh!
- pjc50 5y agoAh, now that is exactly what I was looking for! I want to do some artwork in OSHPark purple-and-gold.
- beachy 5y agoShould have an SMT RFID chip on board surely!
- testmasterflex 5y agoI added NFC on mine together with led lights that flash when near NFC and phone (android only) receives my contact info. Could show it if anyones interested.
- jpm_sd 5y agoYes please! Sounds much more impressive.
- utopcell 5y agoWhat, it doesn't run Linux [1] ? [1] https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/ https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c...
- throaway46546 5y ago>It has a USB port in the corner. If you plug it into a computer, it boots in about 6 seconds and shows up over USB as a flash drive and a virtual serial port that you can use to log into the card’s shell. No way I'm plugging a business card into my computer.
- moffkalast 5y agoWell, it does kind of have the name and contact info of the guy on the card. If something goes wrong you know where to find him and hit him with a wrench.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoUnless the attacker is using a false flag operation... Imagine if the card said Elon Musk, or for a proper tech hero, Steve Wozniak.
- moffkalast 5y agoI suppose that's true, but having it say that would be obviously fake. If you forge the details just slightly so that it's believable it would I guess work as an attack. Daily reminder to myself that there's no faith to be had in humanity.
- utopcell 5y agoNow now, you did click on a URL from an unknown host, didn't you ?
- 40four 5y agoHaha I remember this post, really cool stuff! When I clicked on this, I imagined it was going in the same direction, but unfortunately this card is only for aesthetics. It’s still really cool!
- beebmam 5y agoI can't help but think about American Psycho when I see business cards
- elihu 5y agoHuh, I might want to use that plugin for a side project I've been neglecting. I wanted to make a PCB and I have a program that generates the PCB traces I want as SVG (it's complicated, definitely not something to draw by hand), but I hadn't found a good way to import it into KiCad as a copper layer. I was using SVG because the PCB aligns with some laser cut plywood parts, and SVG is a good format for the laser cutter. I wanted to use the same program to generate the wood parts and (part of) the PCB layout. (There seemed to be a route where you can export as DXF from Inscape and import that into KiCad, but if I remember correctly there wasn't an obvious way to import it as a copper layer. Maybe the situation has been improved since I last tried.)
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoI’ve had good luck programmatically generating Kicad PCBs. You could generate the PCB file directly that way. I do it in this project: https://github.com/tlalexander/induction_encoder https://github.com/tlalexander/induction_encoder
- elihu 5y agoWriting out the KiCad files in a native format was an option. KiCad files are human-readable, so it probably wouldn't be too hard to figure out how to just generate the data programmatically, I just got distracted by other projects and never got back to the project. My data is just thousands of little line segments, nothing fancy. It looks like your script uses some KiCad libraries. My generator program is written in Haskell, so unless someone has written a binding there's probably no easy way to just use the KiCad API. But human readable text doesn't look hard to generate. It seems like the sort of problem I was trying to solve is kind of similar to yours. (The geometry is different. I wasn't making coil-shaped traces, instead my thing was to take a voronoi diagram and for each cell print a set of interdigitized fingers inside the cell. These are for pressure sensors under a strangely-configured keyboard. But the general problem of "I can write a program to draw lines but I need it to be a PCB" is more-or-less the same.)
- TaylorAlexander 5y ago
- naoru 5y agoMitxela made a PCB business card with a working stylophone in it: https://mitxela.com/projects/stylocard https://mitxela.com/projects/stylocard
- ValentineC 5y agoAnother one: https://yeokhengmeng.com/2015/09/pcb-businessname-card/ https://yeokhengmeng.com/2015/09/pcb-businessname-card/
- stephen_g 5y agoThat kind of card does seem pretty annoying though - not being able to fit in a business card holder or a wallet isn't great, I wouldn't know what to do with it. The battery holder seems like it would catch on your pocket too. Don't want to sound like a party pooper - it would be a great thing to have a few on a table in your office for visitors to look at, but not great to give people...
- ssl232 5y agoThis would just annoy me if I were given one.
- edb_123 5y agoI was a little surprised he chose HASL with lead for a business card that would be handled by, y'know, people at conferences, lunch meetings and so forth?
- Hanqaqa 5y agoAuthor here. I corrected and pointed at it in the github. This project was just a quick test where I wanted to try the results. I tried making it as cheap as possible, so I cheaped out on the ~$0.10 per card that would cost me to make it lead free. Next iterations will be made lead free!!
- sulam 5y agoIf you have these with actual traces some companies will call you up to warn you that your board is useless.[1] 1: personal experience