{"id":1103,"date":"2009-01-29T09:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:09","slug":"poll-who-is-your-favorite-prototype-pcb-vendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/poll-who-is-your-favorite-prototype-pcb-vendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Who is your favorite prototype PCB vendor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I wait for my AVR High Voltage Programmer Shield<\/a> PCBs to come back from BatchPCB<\/a>, I’m starting to wonder what prototype PCB services other people are using for their boards.<\/p>\n

Ladyada has a PCB Cost Comparison Calculator<\/a> that shows the significant differences in price between various low volume PCB vendors, but what’s missing from the chart is the answer to: What vendors are people actually using?<\/em><\/p>\n

If the cheapest fab house is also the best, obviously the more expensive vendors wouldn’t be around, would they?\u00a0 Unfortunately, it’s usually not that simple, cheap usually means slow, or low quality, or both.<\/p>\n

I know that some visitors to this site make prototype PCBs at home and others send them out to be fabricated.\u00a0 How do you get your prototype boards made?\u00a0 Vote below.<\/p>\n

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As I wait for my AVR High Voltage Programmer Shield PCBs to come back from BatchPCB, I’m starting to wonder what prototype PCB services other people are using for their boards. Ladyada has a PCB Cost Comparison Calculator that shows the significant differences in price between various low volume PCB vendors, but what’s missing from … Continue reading Poll: Who is your favorite prototype PCB vendor?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,5],"tags":[137,501,32,33,160],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-resources","category-electronics","tag-batchpcb","tag-electronics","tag-pcb","tag-printed-circuit-board","tag-vendors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-hN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3156,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/cheap-prototype-pcbs-from-dorkbotpdx\/","url_meta":{"origin":1103,"position":0},"title":"Cheap Prototype PCBs from DorkbotPDX","author":"Jeff","date":"October 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Laen of DorkbotPDX has been running a PCB proto service for some time now, and I finally got a chance to try it out this month. 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