PCBgogo

Now I’ve been around long enough to know two things for sure:
One, the Mississippi ain’t never gonna run backwards, and two, getting a prototype PCB made without losing your sanity is just about as hard as teaching a cat to play the banjo.

Or so I thought.

See, I remember my cousin Willie, poor soul, trying to get his robot coffee maker working. He spent more time trying to get a circuit board made than he did building the blasted thing. Sent off files here, waited. Got quoted there, waited. Called a company, waited. By the end of it, he had a beard long enough to braid and a coffee addiction that’d make a goat nervous.

And the kicker? The board he finally got back looked like it’d been drawn with a crayon during a train wreck.

But then I stumbled on a thing—PCBGOGO.

Now I don’t usually trust companies with names that sound like a sneeze, but curiosity is a dangerous thing, and I figured, why not? I uploaded a design I had kicking around—something simple, just a signal tester for my old riverboat radio (yes, it still works). Hit “order,” and sat back to wait for the familiar silence.

But here’s the thing: the silence didn’t come.

No sir. Not only did I get a response, I got a real, human reply (I checked twice). They confirmed my files, gave me a price that didn’t make me weep, and told me my boards would be shipped in 24 hours.

I laughed so hard I dropped my corncob pipe.

Twenty-four hours? Surely they meant twenty-four business days. Or maybe twenty-four weeks. You know, “engineer time.” But no, they meant what they said.

And doggone it, they delivered.

I opened that box like a boy on Christmas morning. The boards were there, clean as a preacher’s shirt, neat as a Sunday hymn. No smudges. No missed vias. No extra holes where holes shouldn’t be. High quality, just like they promised. In fact, I’d say it was the finest thing to arrive at my door since Aunt Polly sent me that barrel of peaches during the flood of ’83.

Now listen, I ain’t saying PCBGOGO is perfect. No company is—except maybe the one that invented fried chicken. But if you’re tired of the runaround, tired of feeling like your designs disappear into the Great Unknown, then take it from an old river rat:

Go with PCBGOGO. They’re fast, honest, and know how to treat a fella’s circuit like it matters.

And that’s about as rare as a sober mule on payday.