I’m glad you’re doing well with this. Honestly I have given up making my own PCBs now. I was having such a hard time getting everything right in the production phase and the results were starting to make some of the more complex designs I was putting together really hard to pull off.
But did some reasearch and I have discovered two wonderful things in the last 6 months: cheap Chinese board houses (JLCPCB) and cheap Chinese SMD parts (LCSC). I can now have ten double sided boards with niceties such as solder mask and plated vias up to 4 inches down each side for £11. Think I spent £8 last time and got about 3000 parts to fill them up with.
The boards are actually only $2. The rest is delivery which takes 10-12 days from ordering.
And if it goes wrong you get some nice coasters
