> Of course, the best is using a board house. But the issue 
> there is the delay and the relatively high cost of a single 
> board for prototyping. 

True for one board, but you all know that Olimex is $30..40 for a 160 x
100 mm, *filled with as many different PCBs as you can fit*? So when you
have a number of projects in parallel, using small PCBs, the PCB proto
cost can be very small. 

Olimex warning: do read their small print. All info and extra costs are
on their website, but it takes some reading.

But of course, this does not help for the turnaround time. Now where is
that < $1k milling machine that can produce plated holes? And can you
make me a nice price if I throw in a pick-n-place and a solder machine?
And it all has to fit in a half a m^2.

Wouter van Ooijen

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