I have been recently revisiting inexpensive PCB making for prototyping and came across seeedstudio.com offers a small run PCB service called "Fusion PCB" which starts at 10$ for ten 50mm x 50mm boards. That's a buck a piece! That's pretty amazing and pretty much the cheapest I have ever found. for another 15$ you can go to 100mm x 100mm boards. They have larger sizes but for my purposes the 100mm x 100mm is pretty much the sweet-spot.
It might be an easy way to redesign your project in eagle and get a very clean board out of the deal that fits your case perfectly since you can define a custom shape for the board as well.
accelerometer chips are on the wii nunchuck and clones cost ~$3 IIRC and you can cut the pcb. Google wii nunchuck hack. Same with gyros on the wii motion plus but they are a bit more expensive.
Phil (PhiPi) has done some work with the prop decoding radio stations without using any other chips. Perhaps the time station (WWV?) could be done this way. That would add a feature that would cost next to nothing and save the rtc.
@Cluso99: I've used the Wii Nunchuck Propeller object before and it would be an easy drop-in for this code. I should give that a shot, it would decrease the price by a good bit. Thanks!
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It might be an easy way to redesign your project in eagle and get a very clean board out of the deal that fits your case perfectly since you can define a custom shape for the board as well.
Phil (PhiPi) has done some work with the prop decoding radio stations without using any other chips. Perhaps the time station (WWV?) could be done this way. That would add a feature that would cost next to nothing and save the rtc.
http://hackaday.com/2011/09/23/flip-off-your-alarm-clock/
Hope you don't mind..
OBC
If not, then who is Mike Nathan, the listed poster?