Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

I haven't done a PCB in decades and never was very good at it but that was
before software to help with the routing. There's still a lot of overhead
for a DIY project.

With the advent of Kicad <https://www.kicad.org/> and the low cost PCB
houses (mostly Chinese, but this one <https://oshpark.com/> claimed to
use US PCB fabs) it is trivial for a hobbiest to create a board (even a
multilayer board) and have it fabricated for only a few dollars.

The price on oshpark.com for two layer boards is $5/squar inch, for
three copies of the board.

A six layer board is quoted at $15/square inch, again for three copies.

Quite affordable overall for a hobbiest, and no messing with etch
chemicals either.