Homebrew PCBs

Chris,

I think I can speak for everyone here when I say that we are ALL looking for
the easiest way to put them thar darned traces on a PC board.  :D

I'm also relatively new to the whole world of electronics, and I've also
tried to find 'that special thing nobody thought of yet'.  Well, I've
learned that pretty much everything has been tried.  The only things not
tested are with new technologies, and those are not readily available.
Etchant, transfer paper, silicone paper, toilet paper, direct transfer, CNC
routing, name it, someone here has tried it.

The nice thing is that the experimentation is an important step.  Just like
the drilling station I'm building, if I had bought the ready-made components
from Xylotex (like that cheater Willem  :P  ), I would not have learned
about center-tap transformers and unipolar/bipolar steppers.

I'm also welding my own frame, so I'm going to get back into that
technology.  Shop class is a few decades behind me now, again, I'll learn
more stuff (unlike that cheater Willem  :P  ).  I'll take longer to get it
running, but I'll have learned a lot from it.  As long as I come out cheaper
than that Sherline kit on Xylotex's site, I'm happy.  Somehow I doubt I'll
blow $1250 USD on this venture.

Did I mention Willem cheated?  He's gonna paint a Sherline blue and say he
built it...

Robert
:)


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Envoyé : juillet 1 2005 17:11
À : Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Objet : [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Hmm, another thought....


Jan, worry not, I very much enjoy a good sense of humor!

As I am completely new to electronics and circuit board making etc., 
I have a very open mind to consider anything and everything.  Some 
how a number of years back, I learned that one MUST ASK about 
everything,no matter how trivial.  In this case, I think it is 
pretty obvious I am looking for an alternative method of making 
circuit boards.  Nearly all, if not all, of the current processes 
are subtractive processes, I am just looking at it from a different 
point of view such as an additive process.

But, PLEASE, keep up the humor, it is a whole lot more fun 
investigating this sort of thing when we can share some grins!

Chris


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