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#579 PCB Fabrication

My personal notebook on PCB fabrication options.

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To go beyond breadboards, Manhattan or other home-brew techniques for circuit fabrication, there are basically 3 options:

DIY PCB Etching
Send to a fab - see options below
Get a PCB milling machine e.g. from ucamco

Small-batch PCB Fabrication Services

Projects I’ve sent to a fab

nRF24Breakout - sent to OSH Park
ShiftDriveModule - sent to OSH Park

More Guides and References

Fritzing Guide to PCB Production

PCB Design Tools

EDA - wikipedia
KiCad - the tool I’m using for PCB design
KiCad like a Pro - a great course for learning KiCad

About LEAP

LEAP is my personal collection of electronics projects - usually involving an Arduino or other microprocessor in one way or another. Some are full-blown projects, while many are trivial breadboard experiments, intended to learn and explore something interesting.

Projects are often inspired by things found wild on the net, or ideas from the many great electronics podcasts and YouTube channels. Feel free to borrow liberally, and if you spot any issues do let me know or send a pull-request.

NOTE: For a while I included various scale modelling projects here too, but I've now split them off into a new repository: check out LittleModelArt if you are looking for these projects.

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