Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote: > If this project will cost me a lot I will probably not mind much. The > biggest outdeal is that I will have the opportunity to think, and be > creative. I value these assets way bigger than money and time. If I'm > not able to think, create, analyze or anything like that, my brain > goes stagnant and I turn out extremely dull and bored. That's how I am > as a person, and I'm aware it's questionable but there's nothing I can > do about it. I've been pondering the same issue (to CNC or not to CNC) for some time. Still haven't done it, due to a nagging suspicion that it would mean acquiring yet another time-, money-, and space-consuming hobby, and net time and money saved will be negative. But I have the same personality factor - must be thinking about projects! One strategy is to having several projects going at once; while you're waiting for a board to come back for one project, you can be working on the schematics, layout, and code for another. (And consider in your list - for one-offs they're cheaper, and it's the same 3-4 weeks as e.g. Olimex) > Well, that idea was the first one that popped my mind. As I wrote in > the OP, I have zero knowledge of CNC. This includes zero knowledge of > gerbers and anything that follows it. The idea was in no way > unrefineable, meaning I will absolutely not mind reading up about > better solutions. I have heard EagleCAD (Which I'm using) can do > "outlining" on tracks and output the result to gerbers, so this is > probably the way to go. See to read up on Eagle -> CNC. -- Timothy J. Weber http://timothyweber.org -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist