Hi, I am trying to design a pcb that makes it easy to solder together. I thought about creating a huge pcb directly but that costs too much at pcb way. So I thought I can create multiple smaller pcb's and solder them together. However, I am not sure if there is a standard or easy way to design the pcb such that this soldering is easy. Can I tell pcbway to make some kind of connector at the edge of the pcb?
Terminal blocks.
Header pins
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Yes, there are many different types of edge connectors, as they are called. However depending on how many pins you want to connect you very well could spend more on these connectors than you would by using just a bigger board.
On strip board I have use simple tinned copper wire links to stitch strip boards into larger pieces of strip board.
Here is an example
Note the vertical stitching down the board inthe right hand third, and the horizontal stitching just above that.
Also here: What are horizontal mount interconnects?
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I can't tell what I am supposed to look at 
but I think I know what you're saying. I wanted to make 361 pieces of pcb and connect them in a 19 by 19 layout. If each side of these 361 pcb needs one connector, that would sum up to 1444 connectors. I probably should just design a big pcb to include everything...
The wire links that just go from one hole to the next these are called stitching and attach one piece of strip board to the other. A row of holes on edge of two PCBs will allow you to attach the boards together at almost zero cost.
Oh cool thanks guys for pointing it out! this looks great. I have a question: Is the whole point of this kind of connectors to physically attach two pcb's together? Or am I able to connect the hole to a component on the pcb so these components are electrically connected by these connectors as well??
No... it is more to electrically connect components together from each of the smaller boards. If you look closely there are some boards that don't have the stitching.
Hi, @xfpd
Are you thinking of something like these?
The material is more fiberglass than Bakelite
Flower == flow
Brittle is not easy to bend.
Possibly a chinglish problem!
I have quite a lot of these in various sizes for quick reliable projects.
Tom... 
If it fits in with what you want there is nothing to stop you using these stitching links from carrying a signal as well.
In fact the photograph in post#6 shows a signal wire going up to the stitching row to carry a signal over all the stitching links. I think in this case it was a ground connection.
Cool so I just need to include such stitching board, one or two holes per pcb, this can probably work. Connecting these connectors with wires is simple enough for my need.
The point is the more stitching links the more security one board is held mechanical in contact with an other. I would recommend at least three links on each side to secure mechanical one board to another. Remember this would be ridged when they are soldered up, with no flex in them.
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