[sdiy] rising cost of PCB's?

[Scott Gravenhorst]

David Dixon wrote:
>
>> Doesn't sending gerber files away for professionally 
>> manufactured, double-sided, through-hole-plated pcbs take a 
>> big chunk of the "diy" out of the "synth-diy"?
>

Well, I don't do soldering much anymore.  But I still do what many of us call Synth-DIY
in implementing my own digital designs in a Hardware Definition Language.  The resulting
compiled bit file is sent to (in my case) a commercially built FPGA development board
and runs thereon.  I let professionals do such board layout and soldering because I know
it gets done correctly (well, at least a helluva lot better than I could do it).  While
it is quasi-software, it is still something I did myself even if I did not make the
circuit board.

So IMO, a DIY-synth doesn't require that the entire project is done-yourself.  After
all, how many of can fabricate ICs?  Or even a silicon diode?  

(c:

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