Here are a few tips to make your OnBoard experience as smooth as possible! A collection of tips from OnBoard participants!
- When recieving your grant and you're ready to pay for your PCB, make sure to select a coupon at checkout! This way you will have more money to build more PCBs in the future.
- Try to buy multiple designs at the same time to save on shipping!
- Don't forget to submit your invoice/receipt to Hack Club bank after paying!!!!
- Select the "assemble" option when ordering! This way everything will come assembled.
- Use Lead-free HASL!
- When ordering, you may get an alert that some parts "unselected". This usually can be ignored.
- You can design as many boards as you want, as long as the total cost doesn't go over $100.
- While generating your gerber files in EasyEDA, always chose the One-Click Order option to get a $8 discount. It's more efficient and hassle free, generating and submitting the BOM, Pick&Place, and Gerber files automatically. More information ℹ️.