Several weeks ago we posted about an X-Mas giveaway from Iteadstudio. We were surprised to see that it arrived during our stay in Tokyo! As it was shipped like a regular letter, we suspect it blasted past bigger parcels and slipped through quite easily.
If you’re still waiting for it, and don’t want to know what’s inside, don’t read further.
We were kinda surprised to find a creditcard-sized PCB in the envelope. Actually it is to show off what they can pull-off with their PCB service. It is a reference to help visualize PCB design, as zooming in and out in Eagle makes you more or less unaware of real sizes. We’ll keep this handy all the time.
There were also some other goodies in the envelope: 5x 20cm female-female jumper cable for bread-boarding and testing, a business card, and discount coupon.
Guess X-mas comes early this year!
Great way to promote services as well.
The PCB will come handy in case of any real imagination of product size if doing it the SMD way..
Neat ! I’d like one, too, but I’m certailny too late now :-)
Do they publish the Eagle design files ?
I asked that, but the files aren’t in eagle, but in PADS. I didn’t get any files though.
To bad this was not a more useful board like a proto/breakout for smd ic development……oh well, another PCB for the wall. ;-)
pretty darn usfull if you ask me. I will find great use for this.
Cool. If I can print this off actual size, I can laminate it. As you say, a very useful reference.
Come on, what was the coupon good for?!?
That looks pretty useful actually. I never really know what size holes I need.
Excellent. I just installed Eagle yesterday, so this will be spot on.
the hole sizing on the top will be very useful for checking undocumented pth parts.
Great work. If files available please share.
Also of note: They ship from the same Logistics company that Seeed uses.
booo i got mine but no 5x 20cm female-female jumper cable for bread-boarding and testing
Mine arrived yesterday. No cables for me either :-(
The should have used a lot of the empty green space for silkscreen font and size examples. Nice board though, they should sell these.
Got mine too. It’s a good reminder to stay away from components in the 201 package.
Does anyone know how they did the logo on the back?