Eh, I wasn't worried, it isn't like you are spamming.
Pretty much anything made one-of is going to cost -way- more in time
than would be worth it if you were to sell it. This includes making
our own printed circuit boards.
Which is why hobbyists and small prototypers make this stuff
ourselves, but big places tend to send out to have it done.
I've bought an XY table to convert into a small CNC milling machine.
This was the one suggested in the Nuts 'N Volts article, and I was
fortunate to get it on sale at nearly half-price. I'm just stalled on
it because of the thousands of other projects I'm working on.
Speaking of time vs money- I bought a 16F877 development board rather
than assemble something because 1. I have no time on this particular
project (I should be working on it right now) and 2. I got it for only
$27 plus shipping. I won't recommend the company, though, unless you
are in no hurry to receive your items. I was in a hurry, and paid
extra for 3 to 6 day shipping, and it took 10 days to get here. But
they are refunding the extra I'd paid for expedited shipping. I felt
they were rather disenginuous about when and where it shipped from,
and why there was a small overcharge.
The boards, however, are superb and I could not have done as well,
certainly not in the time I have.
However, I have other projects for which space and money is at a
premium so I am using SMT and am going to make my own PCBs.
Yes, so far the Future Floor polish thing is an urban myth. Stefan is
the only person I know who confirms that he tried it, and that didn't
work out. I do have that Epson 800 piezo head to try but not until
after this weekend, as that when my current project has to be up and
running.
Steve Greenfield
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "crankorgan" <john@k...> wrote:
> Steve,
> I went back and looked at my first message. It looks more like
> an ad than what I was trying to say. What I wanted to say is selling
> a built machine is very hard. Even if you charged $500 each the
> profit would be small. Several people made one of my machines and
> sold it on Ebay. They made $25 profit not counting their time!