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Peter,

For years I have been getting my pc boards from Toronto.
For prototypes they offer me tooling for 3-4 panels up to 12" x 14"
for US$400.
I can stuff as many boards on that size panel and they will route them fo=
r free.
double sided
plated through holes
double sided solder mask
double sided silkscreen
I send gerbers Monday morning and I get boards by Friday.
Shipping extra!
That is US$0.80 per square inch for prototypes
Small production 35 boards that are 11.8"x5.2" cost me US$400.00 (their m=
in charge)
I order by Monday and I get boards by Friday.
That is US$0.19/square inch.
Ray


On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:30:08 -0500, Peter Todd wrote:
>=A0On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:33:21PM -0500, Bill Kuncicky wrote:
>
>>=A0The following was posted on the Gnupic mailing list:
>>
>>>=A0I've prepared (with my friend Wojtek Zaworski) a set of
>>>=A0didactical boards for our students.
>>>=A0One is based on the PIC18F4550, and the another one on dsPIC
>>>=A030F6014. The schematic diagrams and PCB layouts may be found at
>>>=A0http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab/opiclab . May be they will be
>>>=A0useful for someone else
>>>
>>=A0.
>>=A0I looked at the site, and those boards look interesting. =A0Now, as
>>=A0everyone here well knows, I am pretty much a newbie and trying to
>>=A0learn. =A0There is no way that I could take what is posted there
>>=A0and make a board! =A0But I feel sure there are places that can.
>>=A0How much would it cost to have a board made from the info that is
>>=A0given there (approximately)?
>>
>
>=A0Well if you have a copy of the open-source pcb program that the
>=A0boards were made with it'd be a pretty simple operation to tell it
>=A0to "print" a set of gerber files and then you could submit that to
>=A0www.barebonespcb.com and have them made for fairly cheaply. Depends
>=A0on what sort of quantities you want, but the setup fee is $42.00
>=A0per board design and after that it is $0.45 per square inch of
>=A0board ordered. So if you ordered, say, 100 1"x1" boards it'd be
>=A0$42.00 + 100 * $0.45 =3D $87.00 for the whole set of boards.
>
>=A0Judging by the way the boards look, I think there is a fair chance
>=A0that they were made by barebonespcb too...
>
>
>=A0The website for pcb is http://pcb.sourceforge.net It's also
>=A0included in many Linux distributions, such as Debian. There isn't a
>=A0windows version however, which may be a problem for you.
>
>=A0--
>=A0pete@petertodd.ca http://www.petertodd.ca





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