Homebrew PCBs

Alan King wrote:
> Stefan Trethan wrote:
> 
>>But what am i doing, wasting my time here. Let them believe what they want  
>>i have work to do.
> 
>   Heard that.  Part of the reason I've dropped in and out of the 
> discussions lately has been working on more important things.  
> Especially now with PCBEx cutting the quantity in half from CustomPCB, a 
> single even low volume producing product can pay for made boards.  
> $125+ship for five 8x10 boards is simply very reasonable.  I still have 
> my stack of 4 laserjets and will test out direct print to board fully 
> when other things are going a bit more smoothly, but until then I doubt 
> I'll make many more boards by hand, TT or UV.  Simply too cheap to have 
> them made, I doubt you can come out much ahead even if you just count 
> minimum wage for your time..  Still ok if you just have to have an 
> instant board, but that usually isn't so important vs a week or so.
> 
> Alan

Even if they gave the boards to me for free, it's still much more expensive
than doing it myself. If i design a pcb, i can build it in an hour keeping
my same train of thought and get a result, and even iterate a new board if
needed. Getting them made outside means waiting atleast a week (usually two
or three unless you pay double).