[thedance]

Those prices and lead times don't seem very competitive. At Sunstone I pay $5/sq in for 1-day service on a 2-layer board. If I was willing to wait a week it's $1/sq in.

I think people who are impressed by 3d printers often aren't very experienced with how easy it is to make or get made the things they are printing. I can draw a board in my EDA program, hit a button at 6pm and come back to work with the boards on my desk at 8am the next morning, if I want to pay for that. Same deal for parts: I can order a box full of crap from Digi-Key at 10pm Pacific Time and the Fedex guy will drop it on my desk 10 hours later. Electronics prototyping is extremely well developed, fast, and dirt cheap.

[kickopotomus]

Do you have some sort of special deal on pricing? What sort of quantities are you ordering? For oshpark, it's $5/sq in for a batch of 3 boards. I just checked the prices at sunstone and they quoted ~$35 per board for a 1 square inch 2-layer board for 1-day service or $14 per board for 1-week.

[StavrosK]

JLC PCB is less than $10 for 10 5x5 cm PCBs, including shipping. They just take way too long to deliver where I live.

[cozzyd]

Not to mention many of their orders are stuck in limbo right now.

[sschueller]

All my JLCPCB orders are moving and arriving without an issue but that is not the case with their parts supplier (LCSC) or others.

[thedance]

I just looked at my last order, it was a much larger board. I suppose there are different optimal choices for very small boards or larger ones.

[quadstick]

You are right, we live in the golden age of electronics prototyping. I'll throw in plugs for the Octopart search engine for finding parts, and PCBEX for inexpensive prototype boards up to ten layers.

[StavrosK]

Let me guess, you live in the US?

[weaksauce]

that's actually really cool... sunstone is also US based if you are into keeping it in the US... win-win.

though, i just did a quick quote and they are quoting some seriously high prices so i am not sure where you are getting that number from?