April 2016

Where’s my copper??

So I’m always willing to try new board manufacturers, and it seems like new ones are popping up everyday. I usually ‘test’ them out with a small prototype run of just ~10 boards or so. This time for some reason, I was so impressed with their user interface and the ‘buzz’ out there that I pulled the trigger on x100 bare boards… the price did seem a little too good to be true though, but oh well, let’s try it out!

So I got the boards in and they looked great!
Screen Shot 2016-04-06 at 6.57.13 PM
The boards really do look great, but as I started looking more closely, I noticed a major problem.
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