Experimenter Internal Single Slot Backplane

[Addison Burck]

I recently acquired the new Experimenter 2.5.2 and was working with the LED expansion card. The fact that the entire five‑slot expansion backplane had to hang out the back was driving me nuts, so I designed a PCB that lets a single expansion card sit inside the plexiglass of the new aluminum Experimenter case. This gives a clean look with nothing hanging out the back.

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve had a PCB fabricated, and not until after finishing the design have I discovered recent political events have made shipping costs for a tiny order prohibitively expensive. The design is therefore UNTESTED so use at your own risk, but I wanted to share it in case anyone else finds it useful. If anyone in the U.S. ends up having the PCBs fabricated and would like to send one my way, please PM me.

You can access the project here:
https://oshwlab.com/petted4174/test-backplane-3

It uses all the same parts as the stock backplane but for easy reference here are the two headers you’ll need

    SBH11‑PBPC‑D13‑RA‑BK  
    SFH11‑PBPC‑D13‑ST‑BK

[Chris Davis]

That's very cool, I'll give it a try.  I don't know where your pricing your PC boards, but you can have five of these made at JLCPCB for eight bucks including shipping.

[Addison Burck]

JLCPCB is where I priced them but the cheap shipping (global standard direct) option says tariffs are not paid and due at delivery. So it seemed DHL/Fedex where the only options. 
Have you had success receiving boards JLCPCB using global standard direct and not dealing with any tariff nonsense? 

[Chris Davis]

No tariffs are charges when you use global direct shipping.  It's handed off to USPS.  It takes about 2 weeks.