Services

Five ways a job starts, ordered by how little it costs to try me. Every one ends in writing — a findings document, or a full manufacturing package — and any design files delivered are native KiCad you own outright. Where a claim can be checked against something public, the link is right on the card.

  • SVC-01

    Pre-fab design review

    most reviews back in 24–48h

    A second set of eyes on your board before you spend money at the fab. A review is a document — and you can read the ones my own board went through before you pay for one.

    • DRC / ERC / DFM check against your fab's real capability sheet
    • Footprint & part sanity pass — stock, lifecycle, polarity, pin-1, keep-outs
    • Written findings ranked by severity, with a concrete recommendation on each

    Read a real review

  • SVC-02

    Conversion to native KiCad

    quoted per sheet count

    A design that exists as a PDF, DXF, image or another tool's project, redrawn as a clean KiCad project you own outright.

    • Redrawn sheet by sheet with checked symbols and footprints — not auto-traced
    • ERC-clean, with a parity pass against the original before hand-off
    • Delivered as the full package: native files, PDF schematic, project-local libraries
  • SVC-03

    Debug & bring-up help

    first read of your files within a day

    The board is back from the fab and won't enumerate, keeps resetting, or runs hot. Worked from your files, photos and guided bench measurements.

    • A staged bring-up plan — unpowered checks, current-limited first power, rails, buses, firmware
    • USB enumeration, brownout and reset-loop diagnosis against the schematic
    • Written findings with the fix — and the Rev-B change if the copper is at fault

    How I approach it

  • SVC-04

    New board, idea to fab

    small boards in days, not weeks

    From a concept, breadboard prototype, or draft schematic to a manufacturing-ready KiCad project.

    • Schematic capture + component selection from in-stock LCSC / Digi-Key parts
    • Clean 2-layer & 4-layer layout — ESP32, sensors, USB-C, power
    • Full JLCPCB / PCBWay package: Gerbers, drill, BOM with LCSC / Digi-Key part numbers, CPL, PDF schematic, 3D render

    A finished one, published in full

  • SVC-05

    Fix, revise & finish

    scoped and quoted up front

    Work inside your existing KiCad project without breaking what already works.

    • Schematic edits, re-routes, and Rev-B board revisions
    • Power & thermal fixes — pours, thermal vias, trace widths sized to current
    • Half-finished projects taken through to a complete manufacturing package

    What my Rev-B notes look like

What I turn down

Knowing where the line sits is part of the service — if your board is on the far side of it, you will hear that in the quote rather than halfway through.

  • Mains-voltage design
  • Antenna design — pre-certified modules laid out to the vendor's rules instead
  • Controlled impedance beyond a USB 2.0 pair
  • BGA and HDI — blind and buried vias, via-in-pad
  • Precision analog — low-noise instrumentation and sub-millivolt front ends
  • Motor power stages
  • Medical and avionics
  • Firmware ownership — enough to bring a board up, not enough to ship your product

How it starts

  1. 01Send the briefWhat the board does, your target fab, and any files you already have — a paragraph is enough to start.
  2. 02Fixed quote in 24hScope, price, and timeline in writing. NDA signed first if your project needs one.
  3. 03Contract, then workA signed contract with the money-back guarantee written in: if delivery misses the agreed scope, you get a refund. Then the board gets built.
Send the briefThe email opens with the four questions already in it.