Homebrew PCBs

>> 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
>

I fully agree with that.
you have to work with what you get here and now, and using it the best way 
possible.
Keeping things simple is no bad habit i would say.

Also keep in mind how many "low end" electronics is still on single sided 
paper/resin board.

I hate it when i come across the most simple amateur circuits in the web 
which need to use
both layers, with a design complexity that would allow building them on 
half a layer ;-).

I think that is rather a bad habit.

I said before, routing is an art, many disagreed, but i still think it is 
so.


Another case is when you make a prototype of a production series, with a 
homebrew board.
then of course you can not route differently....


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