At 11:53 AM 6/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thursday 12 June 2003 10:25, Marc Nicholas scribbled:
> > Also, as it's my first PCB and I'm a little bit strange at the best of
> > times...I was thinking about maybe putting my unique mark on the PCB in
> > someway. Maybe just something funny written on it like "Proudly made in
> > Canada, eh?".
>
>Except that it wouldn't be made in Canada, would it?  The board would be made
>in Europe.

This is an issue with offshore boards. Technically, the board is a "printed"
product in some countries and falls under the draconian country of origin
marking rules that require the country of origin of the BOARD to be marked
on it. You may not wish your product to have a part that says "Made in
Elbonia" when the board and the rest of the product is assembled domestically.
OTOH, having a shipment of boards held at customs because of misleading
country of origin markings could ruin your whole week.

Don't worry about it for a few prototype boards, however.

>  You mentioned "sensor", which is probably made in Asia somewhere.
>If there's a PIC in it, that would be Malaysia or Thailand I believe.
>Resistors? ... Japan.  Maybe you'll assemble it in Canada, but are *you* even
>made in Canada ?  :-)

Are we thinking vacation?

>So how about "Proudly made on earth".

Best regards,

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