There is no one best fab house. It depends what you need and the kind of boards you are making. For a one-off hobby or test project, maybe OSH Park is best. For high-tech boards, Sierra Proto Express ...

I've been using 4pcb.com/Advanced Circuits for PCB fab, and I'm about to start using them for assembly (board population) as well. <BR><BR>They are one of the big ...

The availability of low-cost, insanely high-quality PCBs has really changed how we do electronics. Here at Hackaday we see people ditching home fabrication with increasing frequency, and going to ...

When your project is ready to build, it’s time to find a PCB manufacturer. There are tons of them out there, but for prototype purposes cheaper is usually better. [Ian] at Dangerous Prototypes has ...

I'm wrapping up my PCB fab review series back in China, with a look at board house ShenZhen2U. The base price for five or ten double-sided boards (only the shipping cost changes) is $11.90 (10 × 10cm ...

The diagram above is a typical PCB layout in Altium Circuitmaker software. The days of “electro” and “mechanical” being separate disciplines are long gone. Virtually all mechanical systems now come ...