No pricing or anything yet. Just had to share these lovely little boards as I really like how they came out. They are about the size of a stick of gum, and designed so they could be easily mounted on enclosure (Gadgeteer connector is on one side, gamepad sockets on the other)
I used DF Robot’s new PCB service. Black silk, “electricity gold” gold plating, overside (in width) board (had to fit in the 10cm x 10cm price range) 100% E-test for 100 boards, including shipping, it came out to just a bit more than $1.50 per board.
Shipping time was miserable, but they now offer DHL which, in my experience, is TONS better.
Manufacturing to shipping turnaround was just over a week.
Looking at this, I don’t think the power decoupling caps are necessary. I don’t see any in the controllers themselves, but I also don’t see any on the parallax boards (which are similar, but also have some LEDs). I added them by habit as I know there’s an IC in the controller.
They also add a fair bit of time to the hand-assembly and that flux makes a mess which shows up more on this black silk than it ever did on green or blue.
Thoughts?
Pete
PS. Those fat pins on the controller sockets are monstrous heatsinks.
Shipping to Europe/Italy: I’m sure I will. It’s always more expensive, though ($5 within the US, around $13 to ca/mx and about $16 to europe as I recall), as I only ship using priority mail so I can print everything off right from my PC and not have to make a trip to the post office. I won’t ship parcel or the other cheap ways. Plus size is the box will fit a fair number of modules in case you decide to go in on some with a friend.
