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How about a small piece of furniture? Design a table that comes together with no fasteners, or a collapsable chair. See who can make the most complete set from a 4x8 sheet of 3/4" plywood, so you...

Tough to say, really. You'd need to match your rules to your intended PCB vendor. They'll give you some basics like minumum trace/space, allowed drills, etc. I usually design to 8 mils...

I use Eagle for work, have played a little with KiCAD as well. Eagle is cool because the files are text format, so there are tons of scripts and user-language programs to manipulate designs and...

A 32 macrocell CPLD will probably work, but why start out with your pants too tight? Check this puppy out. 64 macrocell Coolrunner II, cheap, nice for jamming into a breadboard or a perfboard. ...

Ha! Yeah, I hope he's all set. Oh well, maybe someone can use my regurgitated reflections.

I've used the Sparkfun service, it took about 4 weeks for my boards but they were very small so it may have taken longer to fill a panel. For my last run I used PCB Unlimited because I could get the...

Looks like a disgruntled employee. Probably got laid off and didn't care any more. I have a hard time believing that anyone would be that stupid.

I've seen similar from a factory in Italy. They...

I have a tough time believing that MDF would be stiff enough for a classic lathe. It's under constant cutter stress, and having had a cheapo Dremel lathe once upon a time, I can say that an unrigid...

Somehow I got lucky and found some good local sources. I made nice with a couple of the recyclers in the area for when I don't care so much about knowing exactly what I'm getting. I also like...

I would go with sand. The big boys put sand in the columns of drill presses and milling machines for vibration mitigation. My father worked on a nuclear submarine, and says that the drive shafts...

I haven't seen a "generic" coupon in a while. I'm on the email list, and get the paper mailings, and all of the coupons in the last quarter or so have been for little stuff, not really for larger...