Has anyone of you been offered a sponsorship related your their synth-DIY hobby?
Could you maybe pm me?
For a while PCBWay was doing free small (< 10 x 10 cm) PCBs for me provided I mentioned them in my videos. I stopped doing that after a few videos, partly because they were getting increasingly demanding about mentioning them near the beginning of the video and the top of the video description etc. and partly because, especially with front panels, I was needing to order larger boards, which were much cheaper from JLCPCB, and then adding in a $2 small PCB to such orders was about as cheap and easier to deal with.
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Thx for sharing this. I got an offer from EASYEDA’s educational program. I’ve not received any details yet so far and I’m also not sure yet whether it is legit. I’ve asked for some more info and for now just wait and see.
One more question, if I may. Did they offer you a contract of some sort or how was the cooperation agreed upon?
No, it was very informal.
By the way, the boards they were giving me wouldn’t have cost much, but they also were paying for shipping, which would have cost a good deal more.
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Fab houses will basically make an offer to every single youtuber no matter how small, offer a pittance of free stuff in exchange for what’s pretty much an ad slot, it’s embarrassing to be honest. If people are gonna sell their soul… at the very least they should ask for 3 figures worth of compensation. Maybe even 4.
At least I know that in videos I will be too much Myself to ever be at risk someone would want me to be a Brand Ambassador 
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Yeah, at first they were like “just mention us in the video”, and I thought, well, mention? Not even “mention favorably”? That’s not advertising, that’s just neutrally dropping the name. And then it was, “please mention us in the first sentence of the video description”, et cetera, and I was like, nope.
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I actually plan to burn my bridges next time i post a video haha, this is from my wip narration of it:
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Still trying not to be political?
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I messaged Jos about this but might as well post it here too. I’ve received several emails from overseas fab houses offering to manage sales and distribution of projects. This one was from Elecrow.
Firstly I have no current interest in manufacturing in such large volumes that I’d need a third party to handle those kinds of admin/sales tasks. Secondly, even if I did, I’d want to work with somebody local that I can trust - not a stranger who scraped my email from Tindie.
What would actually be a cool deal was if a company would work with us on the problem we’re always left with 4 spare boards.
Figure out a way to offer to people a bundle of 10 different pcbs by a single creator for a price that works for everyone direct from the factory
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I thought these were selling/trading like hot cakes in the BST thread?
It’d be crass of me to mention the Weirdness, Wave Displacer, Ringer, and JYE Tech Scope boards that have in fact not yet sold like cakes of any temperature.
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Perhaps you could get rid of them more quickly if you posted outside the US. I know that you are reluctant to do so because of postage costs, but Michael Barton is sending out the PCBs at a letter post rate ($3.50). I cannot imagine that people won’t be willing to pay that for Analog Output quality boards. 
The weirdness of global economy is that it is cheaper to order 5 boards (boards AND shipping) from China to Europe than the shipping of a single board from the US to Europe…
That’s not true in this case.
AO JYE Tech Scope 2 boards + panel = $51.48 @ JLPCB
AO JYE Tech Scope 2 boards + panel = $10 @ AO
I cannot imagine that anyone would build more than one scope for a regular system, so even if AO charges $10 for postage, the buyer will save more than $30.
Kosmo boards aren’t teeny lightweight Eurorack boards…
USPS cheapest shipping for a Kosmo sized (and weighted) board set is to Canada @ $30.90.
Cheapest “real” international shipping starts @ $40.25.
So $10 (boards) + $40 shipping (maybe more, didn’t check which price group France belongs to) = $50 for a single set, vs. $51.48 @ JLPCB for 5 sets…
Sure you can spend an hour or two shopping for cheaper at other shipping companies (UPS,FedEx, and whatnot…), but why should AO spend that time ?
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And then you still have a 50/50 chance of being hit by custom taxes + carrier’s processing fees… a good $20 total, and that’s already included in JLPCB’s price…
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And then there was the time I sent some boards to Spain. I used the address the buyer gave me. Several weeks later they were back in my mailbox marked undeliverable. After contacting the buyer and verifying the address I tried again, and they were delivered — but I had to pay the high postage cost twice.
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OK, not $10 as I said, but definitely not over $30. You are looking at the wrong tables 
According to: Calculation of printed circuits weight for standard boards, multilayer and aluminum PCBs
the two pcbs and panel for the scope module weigh 170gr.
According to: First-Class Mail International | USPS
USPS First-Class Mail International for Retail Large Envelopes (Flats) up to ~450gr max. dimensions ~15x19cm (so well within the 2 pcbs + panel example weight and dimensions) costs $11.61 (8 ounces, country group 3-5 for EU).
As for the customs. Even if this is intercepted by the customs and there is an honest customs declaration (goods valued $10), it will get you at most $2.50 VAT+3.50 processing charges (probably less, depending on the EU country).
So total shipping cosst, should be in the vicinity of $18 for EU countries. Let’s say $20 so the seller can get a coffee for the trouble of sticking a stamp on the envelope and dropping it to a mailbox. Still much less than $51.48