TANSTAAFPCB (or is there)

“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold” blue_beetle (see https://bryanalexander.org/digital-literacy/you-are-the-product-one-interesting-source-for-the-meme/) Go to PCBShopper.com and unless you’re wanting teensy PCBs well under an inch by an inch, or PCBs with other than bog standard basic specs, you’re likely to find JLCPCB has the lowest price. Still fairly […]

Bad boards

My previous order to JLCPCB resulted in four acceptable front panels, but the fifth was not so good: Three apparent voids in the solder mask evidently covered over by hand, plus what may be just a blobby error in silkscreening. Monday I got some new PCBs from JLCPCB and after a couple days’ quarantine I […]

OBG VCF TLA OMG (part 2)

I got the VCF boards from PCBWay: Even though I ordered them two days earlier, I have not received the boards from JLCPCB: Sigh. Not that those boards matter, really; I don’t intend to use them. But then there are the panels also ordered from JLCPCB, shipped but at last report (five days ago) still […]

OBG VCF TLA OMG (part 1)

Having learned something about KiCad, I started thinking about putting it to use. I’ve got thoughts of a couple of modules I’d kind of like, both of which I’d have to breadboard and debug before finalizing the PCBs and building them. So I thought, meanwhile, maybe I should work on a module using an existing […]

Got To Blinky

Recently, for reasons I might get to here a little later on, I started thinking about drawing circuit schematics and making PC boards. I did some stuff with the EasyEDA site and I might go back to working with that, I don’t know, but I started feeling like I wanted to try out other options. […]