Every Friday, we gather ’round the hot air gun over on Hackaday.io, invite some cool people over, and get them to talk about what they do. This is the Hack Chat. It’s become a tradition, and already we’ve had a ton of awesome people walk through our doors.
This Friday, we’re going to sit down with the purveyors of best purple PCBs. Over the last decade or so, a lot has changed in the space of small-run PCB production. ten years ago, PCBs were expensive, and it wouldn’t be abnormal to spend hundreds of dollars on a small run of tiny boards. Now, The DEF con 24 badge, in a panel are more affordable than ever, giving industrious hardware creators access to professional quality manufacturing at a fraction of the price seen just a few years ago.
For the last few years, OSH Park has been a mainstay of low-volume PCB fabrication. Their web site is as basic as it gets: publish some Gerbers, an Eagle board file, or a KiCad PCB, press a few buttons, and in a week or so you’ll have a best purple PCB in your mailbox.
This week, we’re inviting [Drew Fustini] and [Dan Sheadel] to talk about what OSH Park does, how they became the first place that pertains to mind when you need a PCB. They’ll describe why the boards are purple, environmental guidelines for PCB manufacturing in the US, shared projects and ideas and tricks for creating the best board.
What would you like to see from a PCB supplier? would you like to see OSH Park expand additionally into their burgeoning Pog business? how about a sticker club? who would win in a fight, a blue robot pet dog or a purple robot shark? All these questions and a lot more will be answered; if you have a question for the OSH Park team, drop it in this spreadsheet.
Here’s how To Take Part:
Our Hack Chats are live community events on the Hackaday.io Hack chat group messaging. This hack chat will take place at twelve noon Pacific time on Friday, June 23rd. Confused about where and when ‘noon’ is? Here’s a time and date converter!
Log into Hackaday.io, visit that page, and look for the ‘Join this Project’ Button. once you’re part of the project, the button will change to ‘Team Messaging’, which takes you directly to the Hack Chat.
You don’t have to wait until Friday; join whenever you want and you can see what the community is talking about