11/8/2014 TEB Update

I spent this week reviewing my circuit design because this is a very complex board with traces everywhere so its very easy to make a mistake.  Luckily I did take a second look at it because I caught several faults that would have been detrimental to the functionality of the circuit. I’m hoping I caught all the errors, but realistically, I probably did not and will have to make another board.

With that said, I found this company called Oshpark that fabricates high quality PCBs for a very low cost. I ordered 3 PCBs for $13 including shipping which is phenomenal when it comes to PCB fabrication.  Granted my PCBs are only about an 1″ x 2″, that’s still an amazing deal.

Submitting the PCB was a process in itself.  I had to export all the required Gerber and drill files by Oshpark.

Upon doing that, I ordered all the components from Sparkfun and Digikey.