while I was looking at the PCB design I felt it was a bit wasteful of space so I started from scratch and redid it. it is now just 3.5″x1.85″.

After looking for a board house to make up PCBs for this little endeavour I found that crazily if i get them made in the UK there are few people with on-line shops for that sort of thing. if I go to mainland Europe the best I can hope for is still £50+ but if I use Sparkfun’s little side company, BatchPCB, the cost drops off enormously. They only charge $2.50 a square inch plus $10 and then postage. What is crazy though is that it is actually manufactured in china. so my design goes to America, where it is then sent to china for production, then the board goes back to America and then from there to me and that’s cheaper than going down the road to get it done!!!

anyway, boards are now ordered and should arrive sometime this month.