Homebrew PCBs

Andrew wrote:

>>Alan wrote:
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>>taking wires out to the edge of the board
>>and soldering a wire around, take several
>>to a single area and drill a larger hole
>>and wrap wires around,. etc etc.
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>I personaly would prefer to drill lots of
>itsy bitsy little holes and rivit in a via
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  Looking back at it my original reply was a bit too easy to interpret 
the other way.  That was meant as a rhetorical question, as in not only 
do a lot of people not absolutely need a CNC to do the holes, they could 
even change their layout form and not even need any holes at all.  Not 
meant to be 'no one would ever possibly want a CNC for any holes'.

  Your needs are at one end of the extremes, many people making their 
own boards would never consider doing one 1/10th that complex by hand, 
and could easily adapt what they do make to rarely need any holes at 
all.  No holes can go a long way for prototyping once you've adapted to it.

Alan