A Tale of Copper, Confusion, and a Company That Actually Gets It Right
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Apr 08.2025, 15:38:50
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 rive...