Quote Originally Posted by skimask View Post
--Add in vias on any signal/power line you can fit them on, whether you drill them out or not. That way you can drill the via later and plug in extra wiring or make mod's down the road, goes back to cutting traces and making fixes and stuff like that.

-- The setup you've got is almost a daisy-chain. Optimally, you'd almost want all the power traces to come back to a central point (same for ground, but you're good there).
think you told me all that before, and i just forgot..

i actually have been using "tremclad" clear on the boards after their etched. then i can drill through it, and it works like a solder mask. it seems to take a little more heat, but im mostly soldering headers and sockets, so it shouldnt make too much of a difference..

the ground plane on the top of the board, is right under the SD card reader. so i put it there to kinda block it from anything..