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Where did you buy your populated boards from? I want to make a small in and not deal with SMT at all.
by joshmarinacci 5mo ago
Where did you buy your populated boards from? I want to make a small in and not deal with SMT at all.
- birdsongs 5mo agoI use jlcpcb, they're common in the prototype and hobby domains. But there's quite a few board houses in taiwan and china that do this, definitely shop around. The annoying part is getting the bom and component placement files correct. I use kicad since it's free, and there's solid instructions from most houses on what they need.
- Animats 5mo agoJLBPCB does small runs cheap as a loss leader, so they get the production runs, if any, later. Also, they get to see what people are doing, in case something interesting goes by. There's also a suspicion that JLBPCB may be encouraged to do this by the Party, to discourage other countries from maintaining an independent prototyping capability.
- birdsongs 5mo agoAh, really interesting points, thanks. It definitely seems too cheap to be true.