Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:50:38 +0100, Lez <lez.briddon@...> wrote:

> Oh I dont need anything like drilling doing, thats my headache!
> Its a prototype for a car alarm for myself and some friends, I've
> designed it, wrote the software for it, and I'm going to put it up on
> my site as a project for others to build one if they want etc, its
> essentially PD hardware, and its development has been 'blogged' on
> digital car uk
> Just a pic chip and a load of transistors.
> The very first TT board I did came out like this.....
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tinabriddon/bday/DSC00465.JPG
> Its spot on, but I have not had a working one since!
> And these ones are a 1/4 of the size of that one, look!
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tinabriddon/pcb/boards.jpg
> This is my headache...
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tinabriddon/pcb/stress.bmp


Still can't understand how you ended up with that heap of half-done boards  
there ;-)

10 of them, drilled, professionally done by futurlec cost only 40USD.  
Thats $4 a board.
I recommend you simply order them there.
If for some unfathomable reason you don't want professionally made boards  
at this incredible price I can offer to do them for the same, but without  
drilling. Surely you would have to be crazy (you might be for all I know,  
if you really think your wife isn't going to suss out the blackpool thing  
as soon as you suggest as much as going away ;-) ).

Convenience and speed seems just about the only reason these days to make  
your own boards, price certainly isn't.

ST