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Yeah, laser cut acrylic would probably look clearer than 3D printed as long as you just want simple flat geometry.

That's some solid soldering there.  I also appreciate that you cleaned the flux off the board.

Happy belated birthday!

Hi Madbeaners! Not sure if this is a comeback

It depends on the complication of the design.  JLCPCB is good and will work for most straightforward boards.  OSHPark has slightly better capabilities.  PCBWay can do more complicated boards, but is more expensive.

For most boards, JLCPCB works just fine and the pricing is very good.

Five fuzz circuits.  ;-)

Your excellence is hurting me

Seriously, though, looking sharp! Any gut shots?

I'm not sure if I took any before shipping it off to the customer.  I didn't upload any to my IMGUR account, so I'll have to dig through my files and see if I have any.

Five fuzz circuits.  ;-)

What he's saying is that you eagerly wait to click the button till the last second with  your max bid entered in the box. Thats how I've always done it. You have to enter what you are willing to pay. You won't get a second chance.

Ahhh... Got it now!

Do a lot of people really do that? If you know your maximum bid, why wait until the very last second to enter it?  Why not just place a bid with your max and be done with it (like I do)? Weird!

There's no nefarious reason for it, but I think a lot of folks do it.

In my case, I don't want to start a bidding war early because it leads to emotional "I have to win this" bidding where folks tend to bid higher than they otherwise would (I'm not immune to this either).  I'd rather pre-determine what my max price is and put it in right at the end as it's generally the most effective way of getting it at the lowest price without leaving time for a bidding war.  I probably lose more auctions that way, but it prevents me from getting caught up in the moment.  Twice this week, I bid on some old vacuum tubes and I would've paid more than the final amount that somebody won then for, but I bid more conservatively so I didn't win.  It happens.

If it's not "Buy it now" at a reasonable price, I'll stick the maximum in that I'm happy to pay as my bid in and forget about it.  Sometimes it works (really well, under my max), sometimes it doesn't.  90% of my ebay purchases aren't essential for anything so I'm not super fussed.

I operate the same way. I just hate it when you end up losing the auction and then see in the bid history that the winner placed 17 bids in the last 20 seconds!

It can do that without a sniping program.  I tend to put in last minute bids with my max dollar so I don't keep going back and upping my offer in an attempt to win.  eBay will automatically rebid on my behalf until I hit that max or win.  It can easily generate 17 bids in 20 seconds if there is one other person bidding.  It's just the way eBay's software works.  FWIW, I've never used a sniping program.

Final update to the thread:

I should be completely healed in about 5-6 weeks. I feel well enough to start back on mbp now. So, I plan on getting the two unreleased projects out within a week. After that I've got quite a few more in the pipeline that could drop in Aug. and Sept.

Only bad news is my license is probably going to get a 6 month suspension (medical one due to the seizure). Most likely there will be no change on the customer end in terms of shipping orders but if that changes I'll let y'all know.

Thanks again to everyone that expressed support. I am way beyond ready to get back to business as usual.

I'm really sorry to hear about your license, but I'm glad that you're going to fully recover.

Mount it on the underside of the board.  ;-)

Man, that's awful.  I hope you heal up soon.  Let's catch you when you're feeling better.

I really dig that. 

I'd love to go to Altium but I don't see it ever happening. I could pretty much use Eagle 7.5 for the next 10 years without issue. Jeez, I'm even sick of paying for the Adobe Master Suite. I've probably put over $6k into it and I still don't own the goddam software!

Altium is wonderful, but extremely expensive.

It's easily the most configurable PCB layout program I've used and really easy to break via settings, or at least it was when I used it last.  But if you are good at writing code (I'm not), you can do an awful lot with it.

My condolences, Brian.  I'm really sorry for your loss.

Man, I can definitely see a bit of you in your Dad's face.