{"id":1142,"date":"2014-03-17T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2014-03-17T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T18:18:35","slug":"easier-and-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/2014\/03\/easier-and-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Easier and harder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armed with my gerbers, I went to OSHPark<\/a>, the place where I’ve heard small quantities of small boards can be had at a reasonable price. It starts with a nice welcome page. I pushed the giant Get Started Now button, thinking I’ll need a log in. Nope, it gets started, wanting me to upload my files.<\/p>\n

We’ve only just met, that seems a little fast.<\/p>\n

I tried to upload files but it failed because I tried to upload the first of the many files in my newly unzipped directory. Happily, it told me to load the zip so I deleted my expanded folder and just loaded the zip file I got from electrical engineer Casey. Clearly, this site was designed for idiots. Which is great in this case.<\/p>\n

When I uploaded the zip, it didn’t have one of the files but it told me which one was missing. I emailed Casey. But then, as I was procrastinating kitting parts<\/del> decided to write up these experiences, I read more of the text surrounding the large buttons on OSHPark. It said I can put in the brd file. I saw one of those in the source directory (as opposed to the Gerbers zip).<\/p>\n

This succeeded. Faced with a “name it and give us your email”, I had to choose Continue (the only other option was start over). The buttons were inviting but I felt like I was herded along the path.<\/p>\n

The site showed the different layers, similar to what Casey had sent. They looked good. Now, Approve or Approve and Order? I wanted to order them… but how much will it be? They didn’t (yet) have payment info so cancelling was possible.<\/p>\n

Oh! Check this out, on the next page it said:<\/p>\n

Your design will cost $6.45 per set of three.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Squee! I can buy them! They aren’t very expensive. I have to buy in units of 3… well, I thought it would be $40 for 10 or 15 so… let’s do 15 ($32.25). And free shipping? Cool!<\/p>\n

Seriously, this is too easy, it has to fail catastrophically any second now. Typed in my credit card number (obviously this is a business expense!)… now there is email from their bot and a receipt in my email account.<\/p>\n

I just bought boards. Wow. That’s pretty cool. So easy a software engineer could do it.<\/p>\n

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