ShrimpingIt + Self-Designed PCB + Eagle + PCBWay

For a while I have been a follower of ShrimpingIt and their incredibly simple design for using and programming an Atmel 328p, from the Arduino IDE. Note: I have *never* designed a PCB before. From Eagle I was able to easily export the Gerber files and put them into a zip file. I chose PCBWay, based in China for my fabrication. They offer cheap postage and 10 pieces of 100mmx100mm board for only $5. It was simple to get an account, and upoad the Gerber files to them. There were lots of choices for holes / vias / silkscreens / soldermask etc - but I chose the most simple options. Customer Service was excellent - PCBWay quickly reviewed by design, and came back with a few questions (not surprising!) and I refined it and got my final design approved. My design was only 50mmx50mm, so I could have got 4 times as many done really. I'm based in the UK, and chose HK Post for my postal method. PCBWay keep you updated along the way, and manufacture was very quick from MI (Manufacture Instruction) on 5/28/2017 4:04:18 PM through to Delivery Ready [​IMG] 5/29/2017 6:26:32 PM Once complete, my 10 boards were posted (2017-05-29) and I was able to track their progress across the globe using HKPost Track and Trace and Royal Mail Track and Trace too. The boards arrived today (2017-06-07) and I could not be more pleased with them! They were very well packaged, secure in a shrink-wrap (one side bubble wrap) in a cardboard postage box. The PCBs themselves are good quality, solder easily, vias (connections through the board to the second layer) and pads are easy to solder onto, and I've already soldered one of them together with components to test - IT WORKS PERFECTLY! I've already done a 'version 2' of my design, applying what I've learned, and it is being manufactured by PCBWay now (very excited about this one arriving).