PCB Business Card
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[1] https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c...
No way I'm plugging a business card into my computer.
Imagine if the card said Elon Musk, or for a proper tech hero, Steve Wozniak.
> In this repository I will explain the steps I followed to create this Business Card made out of PCB material inspired by Chris Tully's card from Hackaday[1]
https://lifehacker.com/an-artist-explains-what-great-artists...
I corrected and pointed at it in the github. This project was just a quick test where I wanted to try the results. I tried making it as cheap as possible, so I cheaped out on the ~$0.10 per card that would cost me to make it lead free.
Next iterations will be made lead free!!
Yes, "own", because a domain is just rented out, but better than being owned by Google.
Yes! That was one of my main concerns. I have my own email domain, but it is a .xyz domain and I have had some people struggling with the QR code on the back, some QR code apps don't recognise webpages in the .xyz domain (looking at you Xiaomi camera app). They just recognise it as plain text. So you have to copy and paste it into your browser.
So I am a bit self conscious about having to explain that that thing is an email address. Will probably add it on the next batch though.
- it stands out,which might be good for personal branding reasons,
- it physically shows off skills in pcb (and graphical) design.
svg2texas fails EMC tests in winter.
(There seemed to be a route where you can export as DXF from Inscape and import that into KiCad, but if I remember correctly there wasn't an obvious way to import it as a copper layer. Maybe the situation has been improved since I last tried.)
I do it in this project:
It looks like your script uses some KiCad libraries. My generator program is written in Haskell, so unless someone has written a binding there's probably no easy way to just use the KiCad API. But human readable text doesn't look hard to generate.
It seems like the sort of problem I was trying to solve is kind of similar to yours. (The geometry is different. I wasn't making coil-shaped traces, instead my thing was to take a voronoi diagram and for each cell print a set of interdigitized fingers inside the cell. These are for pressure sensors under a strangely-configured keyboard. But the general problem of "I can write a program to draw lines but I need it to be a PCB" is more-or-less the same.)
Nope. JLC every time here. Never a problem.
I never had quality problems. I remember reading an email with the report from an electrical test from one of my boards, so I don't know why you say they don't do it.
I only contacted support once and it took them 2 weeks to respond. Could be better I guess, but my experience with other PCB companies tends to be worse. I'm used to never getting any replies at all.
I did feel kind of cheated when they sent me an elaborate market research questionnaire. In exchange they offered in-store credit. I took the time to fill it out and send it to them, but I never got the credit they promised. I never contacted them about it because it wasn't such a big deal, but it still left kind of a sour taste.
With JLCPCB on the other hand, I've had things stuck in customs for 2-3 weeks multiple times due to documentation issues and then I had to hunt down someone at JLCPCB with the authority to provide me with a fixed invoice.
That said, I've heard that the JLCPCB DDP terms work great (where they pre-pay customs for you) but they didn't allow that in my price range.
1: personal experience
Don't want to sound like a party pooper - it would be a great thing to have a few on a table in your office for visitors to look at, but not great to give people...