Hi All,

Within a month (or two or three) I'll be done with the design of a device
I'd like to have turned into a finished board.  I've got a buddy in the
board-making business & I'll have him make the board for me - but he doesn't
design them - just works from gerbers.

My board will be about 1.25" by 3.5", 2-layer.  It will consist of an MCU,
several other ICs (all SMT), a few pin headers and a handful of smaller
components.  The board itself is bigger than it needs to be due to some
mechanical requirements - the circuit itself is fairly simple.

My questions:

1.  If I hand someone a schematic, how much might I expect to pay to have
the board designed?  Cheap is good - I wish I could find a talented hobbyist
or student to do this for me...

2.  I don't have any board design experience - how does one spec component
packages/sizes to maximize cost-effectiveness, availability & flexibility?
...or does the guy designing the board handle that?

-matt redmond

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