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Box of new PCBs
A box of PCBs just arrived from Seeed Studio’s Fusion PCB service. This batch includes: XT-IDE Adapter Bus Pirate Demo board v4.0 IR Toy Shield v2.0 BPv3b breakout v3.2 Android Accessory Development...
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PCB store survey results
Yesterday we asked how much you’d pay for a PCB from the PCB drawer. We played with the numbers and our findings are below. First, answers to some common questions. Nothing will change with our weekly...
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Zencart MOD: Limit Paypal to specific categories
Adafruit posts some Zencart zennieness every week. Here’s our first humble mod of the popular online store software. Soon one or two popular PCBs will be available for a couple bucks from the PCB...
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Converting an Inkjet printer to print PCBs
There are many ways to built a DIY PCB. Some of the more popular ones are the toner transfer method, and the UV exposure of PCBs. Both methods require lots of trial and error. Here is another way to...
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ITead Studio: COLOR Your PCBs
ITead Studio is offering a new “Color your PCBs” service. You can chose to have your boards in red, blue, white, yellow, or black. There’s only a $5 price increase, but instead of 10 boards you get 8....
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PCB macro photography without a macro lens
Torwag started a thread in the forum with lots of interesting tips for taking macro pictures of PCBs without buying an expensive macro lens: Many here know how difficult it could be to do good...
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Panelizing multiple PCB on a single cheap PCB service
Schazamp made an instructable on how to get multiple PCB onto a single cheap PCB service, like Seeed’s Fusion, or ITead’s Open PCB. The process involves merging the gerber files with GerbMerge. just...
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Magnificent Nixie tube thing PCBs arrive
Look great. Socket hole is a little too short and needs to be filed down. Not bad though.
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Bus Pirate v4c PCB community order
Schazamp got restless waiting for the Sick of Beige version of the Bus Pirate v4, namely V4c, to become available at Seeed. He decided to start a PCB order himself. If you’d like to get one from him,...
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Box of new PCBs
A box of PCBs just arrived from Seeed Studio’s Fusion PCB service. This batch includes: Bus Pirate LCD Adapter v4b DP6037 PTH.v1 DP6037 protoboard.v1 DP6037 SMT.v1 Logic Boost 6 Channel Logic Analyzer...
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The deal with Dirty Cheap Dirty Boards PCBs
This sad FACE FRAME! documents the moment Ian found out Dirty PCBs hit Hacker News, Hack a Day, etc. Here’s the story behind our joke PCB site… A few months ago there were some comments in the forum...
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DIRTY TUESDAY: A bumpy road to streamlined service
A few months ago we started a private PCB website so our team can get cheap PCBs from a fab in China. Someone spilled the beans, and it hit Hack a Day, Hacker News, etc. We almost shut it down, but it...
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