I discovered that AllPCB have a coupon offer - 1 free order per month with free shipping. It’s only for up to 100mm^2/green soldermask/1.6mm but that’s more than enough. Interestingly, lead free HASL is free, while you have to pay for leaded. I’ve ordered some boards from there to see what the quality is like.
For prototypes, this could be a gamechanger.
This is where I found it.
Cool! Slow shipping, I presume.
The size limit appears to be 100 mm*150 mm, more useful than a tiny 100mm^2, but still won’t fit most Kosmo modules. Cool service anyway!
Maybe not front panels, but fine for gubbins!
It seems that as long as the total board area doesn’t exceed 0.0750m^2, then it’s free. This means that I can get up to 75mm Kosmo front panels for free(in green though 
). Still good news for testing whether the panel fits or not.
100 mm * 150 mm = 0.015 m^2, not 0.075, but yes, 200 mm x 75 mm. Or, you know, 1 mm by 15 meters.
I went back to the site and eventually figured out how to do it. Click on the coupon, then fill in the order form, then upload the Gerber. Entirely ass backwards. I tried choosing a color other than green and got an “unavailable coupon” message, then realized what was up and tried again with green and it worked. I mean, the order went in. We’ll see what happens next. I did get an email.
If there is any question, please contact your sales representative – Daria(caroline@allpcb.com)
Good old Daria Caroline.
I just was toying around with the settings, and it appears that up to 4 layers is still free. If so, i imagine that will help those golf players.
PCBShopper.com shows only slow shipping and DHL, but I tried starting a non-free order just to see how it priced out and what came up was $19 for DHL and $44 for UPS (supposedly a day faster). Or $528 for a year of orders. Plus the actual boards cost.
That’s a very expensive email address.
