v1.1 Cir

[Marshmellow84]

I was curious where we could buy the v1.1 circuit board for this project. I am very interested in building and trying this project out

[dalethomas81]

Hey @Marshmellow84, there are 2 places I have tried.

The first was https://oshpark.com. They build beautiful high quality boards. However, they were very expensive, the shipping time was very long, and I couldn't get a stencil.

The second place was https://jlcpcb.com. I highly recommend you buy from them. The boards are very inexpensive, the shipping was way faster, and they sell stencils.

Btw, if you don't know, a stencil is a "mask" you can put over the board so that you can easily apply the solder paste to only the right places. Check out this video: https://youtu.be/fYInlAmPnGo

[Marshmellow84]

Its been years since I did any of the stencil stuff. I was hoping some were already made up. However, that said I did look over the buy list last night briefly, but don't recall the stencil in there. Perhaps I missed it?
I'm guessing if I place a order just upload a stencil to them and they do the rest on the order?

[dalethomas81]

Oh man, if I had the time I would make some up to sell. Actually, I think jlcpcb has a service that will solder the boards for you. Not sure about that.

For the stencil, when you upload the gerber files for the pcb to them they give you the option to buy a stencil at the same time you checkout. They build the stencil based on the gerber file.

[Marshmellow84]

Oh nice, okay I will do that then. And I don't mind making it myself, I look forward to that part. Just was hung up on the board itself so ty for the help ill keep ya posted as I go