[sdiy] DIY PCBs

[Nils Pipenbrinck]

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From: <Brockr0 at cs.com>
> For those who have had success with printing to transparencies, what
brands
> of  transparencies, printer, and toner are you using?

I'm using "System" films.. they're used as overhead-films for laser
printers. They are not cheap, but I can get them at every big shoping mall
here in germany. The usual problem is, that the toner doesn't darken
enough.. to fix this I simply print out the pcb twice, align them and glue
the two films together..

That works quite nice for simple stuff.. very tiny traces however don't work
that way. (don't even think to route a signal between ic-pads). For
prototypes this is however ok. I save a lot of money.

I don't like to work with breadboards. I found out, that it's faster to roll
your own pcb and etch it than to use these breadboards. And in fact I really
like to do single sided pcb layout :)

BTW: When I was a child my father introduced me to electronics. He worked at
a large printing company and had access to the machine that exposes films
for offset printing. We used them to make our pcb-films. We got perfect
results this way.

ok.. enough "blah blah"... back to work,

  Nils Pipenbrinck