PCBRITE

It was raining the morning I submitted my PCB design. Not a hard rain. Just a soft, persistent drizzle. The kind of rain that makes you want to stay inside, put on a Miles Davis record, and stare out the window for hours without thinking of anything in particular.I had spent the night before adjusting the traces. Making sure the signals were clean. Making sure everything lined up just right. There’s something oddly meditative about circuit board design. It’s like writing a novel. Every connection matters. Every path leads somewhere. Or nowhere.I’d been let down before—by companies that promised fast delivery but shipped like time had no meaning, or by manufacturers that treated my designs like afterthoughts. That kind of disappointment, over time, collects in the corners of your soul. Like dust in an old jazz bar.But that day, someone in an online forum mentioned PCBGOGO. I liked the sound of it. It had rhythm. Like a piece of obscure Bossa Nova I couldn’t quite remember but somehow st...