Homebrew PCBs

Rick C. wrote:

> Unless you're designing for production. If you get too used to doing
> that, it will be a bad habit to break.
> Rick
> 
> Alan King wrote:
> 

   Well few production items make sense to worry about having double sided 
without through holes anyway.  And I'd still disagree with that opinion on other 
grounds, in general it develops your layout skills far more to work on good 
topology and have the minimum number of jumpers with everything on the bottom. 
Trivial to go to some easier method, so hard to consider it a bad habbit.  For 
the most part designing towards any goal strengthens your skills for designing 
towards other goals, the particular goal for a particular case hardly matters. 
I could design for months straight this way, and then still have no problem 
doing something else, and I bet most other people could too..  I mainly do SM 
single sided boards now for no holes because it makes sense, but it hasn't made 
me bad at still doing a double sided when needed.

Alan