Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-16 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de writes: Sorry, I should have checked. Their domain is genuinely German: http://basista.de ^^ BTW, the website just got a redesign. It looks much fancier than last week. Their pcb service is high quality,though. Last time I

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-16 Thread kai-martin knaak
Stephan Boettcher wrote: http://www.leiton.de for prototypes. No problems in the past, but I do not know any others to compare to. When I was serching for a boardhouse in Germany a few years ago, they had the best web-site of all I could find, usable, giving all the infos I wanted without

gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Jim
Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new, very inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype. Last time I laid up a board I used a drafting table and mylar. I may need a bit of handholding as I go along. Thanks, Jim.

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread jason duhamell
Are you willing to work with chinese? On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Jim [1]...@k4gvo.com wrote: Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new, very inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype. Last time I laid up a board I used a drafting

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:30 -0500, Jim wrote: Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new, very inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype. Last time I laid up a board I used a drafting table and mylar. I may need a bit of handholding as I go along.

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:30:14 -0500 Jim j...@k4gvo.com wrote: Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new, very inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype. Last time I laid up a board I used a drafting table and mylar. I may need a bit of handholding as

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:37 -0600, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: Note: they require a hand-written fax on the first order (security feature, no doubt). Fax, how quaint.. (I think there is a fax machine somewhere in our office.. but I doubt they will be common in 10 years time!) -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Eric Brombaugh
On 03/08/2010 11:30 AM, Jim wrote: Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new, very inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype. Last time I laid up a board I used a drafting table and mylar. I may need a bit of handholding as I go along. If you're in US

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Dave N6NZ
If this is your first board, I'd go with a shop that is reasonably fast and known for quality work. Fast because: * this is your first board, and you are excited to have it. * this is your first board, and now is the time to make mistakes quickly. Quality work because: * this is your first

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread jason duhamell
I can only recommend the company that I use to make my pcb's. [1]fz...@126.com from huizhou in china that is very easy to work with and very professional at a good price. usually less then 2 dollars a board for samples. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Dave N6NZ [2]n...@arrl.net

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread DJ Delorie
I've used 4pcb (US, via www.barebones.com, www.33each.com, and other specials) as well as www.pcb-pool.com (EU). @126.com I hate this ISP, but only because of their non-stop spamming of usenet (mostly for pcb fab work!). They're on my permanent blacklist and I refuse to do business with

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread jason duhamell
[1]126.com is just a email like [2]gmail.com, what are you talking about? On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:08 AM, DJ Delorie [3...@delorie.com wrote: I've used 4pcb (US, via [4]www.barebones.com, [5]www.33each.com, and other specials) as well as [6]www.pcb-pool.com (EU).

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Robert Spanton
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:30 -0500, Jim wrote: Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new, very inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype. Last time I laid up a board I used a drafting table and mylar. I may need a bit of handholding as I go along. In my

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread John Luciani
I would also go with fast and quality for the reasons that Dave stated. I would use PCB Express or Advanced Circuits. Highest quality boards in 2-5 days (depending on service). If you have more than one design panelize and cut them yourself. If you have friends that want PCBs group all your

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Michael Sokolov
Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new, very inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype. Last time I laid up a board I used a drafting table and mylar. I may need a bit of handholding as I go along. I had my OSDCU board fabbed at Sierra Circuits

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:37:57 +, Peter Clifton wrote: I'm far more likely to be able to suggest a fab-house in the UK than (say) Germany. In that case, others on the list can jump in ;-) ---(kaimartin)---(who gets his prototypes done by http://basista.com ) -- Kai-Martin Knaak

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Eric Brombaugh
On 03/08/2010 12:28 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: ---(kaimartin)---(who gets his prototypes done by http://basista.com ) Odd - that resolves to a furniture store for me. Diversification! Eric ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:31:47 -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote: (who gets his prototypes done by http://basista.com ) Odd - that resolves to a furniture store for me. Diversification! Sorry, I should have checked. Their domain is genuinely German: http://basista.de

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Steven Michalske
On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Michael Sokolov wrote: Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new, very inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype. Last time I laid up a board I used a drafting table and mylar. I may need a bit of handholding as I go

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.

2010-03-08 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:50:04 + Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:37 -0600, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: Note: they require a hand-written fax on the first order (security feature, no doubt). Fax, how quaint.. I know, I always thought it was a little odd of