On 12/25/07, wouter van ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> > 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.

Or impossible to be produced at Olimex.

>
> 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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