Raspberry Pi B+ header board for smart home automation

You can safely get away with referring to English, Scots and Welsh people as "Brits" since we're all citizens of mainland Britain. I'm not so sure whether a Northern Irelander would be so happy with that epithet though.

Referring to a British citizen as an Englishman is, I suppose, akin to our referring to a citizen of the US of A as a (Goddam) Yank. :-)

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J B Good
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If you have enough time, you can easily beat that price in China:

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Last time I ordered, I paid around 12 EUR including shipping, for 10 boards

50mm*50mm (double-sided solder mask and silkscreen included!). They don't do less than 10, but even if you only need one, it's a lot cheaper than european-based prototype PCB manufacturers.

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I have used both and got good-quality PCBs each time.

Shipping will usually take around 3-4 weeks unless you pay extra for express delivery.

cu Michael

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Michael Schwingen

Until megacorps out-compete all the mom and pop businesses ...

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Rob Morley

That's a pretty good deal. I expect they are doing a similar thing where they batch up a number of customers onto a single panel producing

10 panels. Funny that the price increases so dramatically with colors.

The 4 layer boards are not as good a deal. Given that you only want a small number of boards $65 is about 40% higher than oshpark, but if you can use more than 3 boards - again a good deal.

One thing to note, oshpark gives you ENIG standard. I expect hobby projects won't care, but it makes a difference in surface mount. ITEAD upcharges for ENIG. Also, there have been some issues with the ITEAD software reading valid Gerber files. The reports I have read say that ITEAD will remake the boards, but it would be good if they could fix their software to properly image valid Gerber files.

I notice DirtyPCBs is honest about the shipping quoting 1 to 8+ weeks for the inexpensive shipping. I have used that with eBay orders and sometimes stuff arrives and sometimes it doesn't. Paying for shipping that actually reaches its destination in a reasonable time more than doubles the price! :(

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Rick
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For a Scot I would think a better analogy would be calling a Canadian a Yank :-)

Alan

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Alan Dawes

Or a Kiwi an Aussie ...

Gordon (A Scot living in England)

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