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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 01:26:45 +0000
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On 24/01/2025 20:27, Rich wrote:
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> I haven't done a PCB in decades and never was very good at it but that was
>> before software to help with the routing. There's still a lot of overhead
>> for a DIY project.
> 
> With the advent of Kicad <https://www.kicad.org/> and the low cost PCB
> houses (mostly Chinese, but this one <https://oshpark.com/> claimed to
> use US PCB fabs) it is trivial for a hobbiest to create a board (even a
> multilayer board) and have it fabricated for only a few dollars.
> 
> The price on oshpark.com for two layer boards is $5/squar inch, for
> three copies of the board.
> 
> A six layer board is quoted at $15/square inch, again for three copies.
> 
> Quite affordable overall for a hobbiest, and no messing with etch
> chemicals either.
I'm paying a lot less than that for Chinese... dirtypcbs.com


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