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So far I got back the prices for two of the boards. First is the stepper motor driver (you need one for each motor), and then the motherboard. The quote I got it is roughly R50 a stepper board and R110 a motherboard. This is bare pcb's only but commercially made (silkscreen and soldermask). I'm orde...

Hi All, I've been contemplating building a reprap/cupcake cnc. It's basically a 3d home printer. At the moment I've started with the electronics. I'm planning on ordering some pcb's for the 3rd generation electronics. http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/Generation3Electronics Just wanted to find out if ...

OK, would you mind still posting details. Postage is cheap enough so I'd be interested if the features (silkscreen, etc) are good and the prices are good as well. Lemme know

Well, I'm located in Vanderbijlpark. but any place in Gauteng would be fine

So, for the hobbyist Eagle would be a good bet.

Speaking of pcb's and such. Does anybody know of a pcb manufacturer in SA who would do runs of about 20 pcb's or even less ? I'd like to have some boards made, doublesided, nice green pcb's with silkscreen.

Thanks,
Tom

sounds cool, but whats the price tag on Orcad ?

Well, as far I can gather you only need a screen, some photo emulsion and some ink and then you can do atleast basic stuff. The only problem is that I can't seem to find anything locally ?

Hi Everybody,

I've been wanting to try screenprinting for a while not with the idea of putting some nice graphics on my pc. But I can't seem to find any suppliers for screen printing supplies. Does anybody on the forums do screen printing or know where I can get the supplies locally ?

No, don't use it. Dont trust it for full on development. I use Orcad Capture CIS and Layout plus. Why would you not recommend eagle. I've been using the freeware edition for a while now for small projects and I haven't had any problems with it. I'm not starting a fight, but I was just wondering why...