Easy Printed Circuit Board Fabrication

wmpwi · Dec 30, 2005

Maybe this is old news for some of you, but it was new to me and I thought this was pretty interesting. I know I've seen some wicked hand made circuit boards carved with a Dremel or some other device ill suited to the task. This may be a workable solution to prototyping, though most electronics design is well beyond me. Nonetheless, here's Thomas P. Gootee's link:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/gooteepc.htm

NewBie · Dec 30, 2005

wmpwi said:
Maybe this is old news for some of you, but it was new to me and I thought this was pretty interesting. I know I've seen some wicked hand made circuit boards carved with a Dremel or some other device ill suited to the task. This may be a workable solution to prototyping, though most electronics design is well beyond me. Nonetheless, here's Thomas P. Gootee's link:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/gooteepc.htm

The technique has been around since at least the very early 1990's. Some folks even sell a special paper which falls apart when put in water. With the right technique, you can make some amazing boards with this method.

MikeHunt79 · Dec 30, 2005

I've done the old laser printer method. It works great, but I had to try a few brands of paper. The finished boards are good aswell... I haven't had any problems with tracks being too thick or thin.

cy · Dec 30, 2005

thanks for the link

chimo · Dec 30, 2005

This is the paper Newbie was referring to. It works quite well, and there are ways to minimize waste - which you want to do cuz it's not cheap.

Paul

wmpwi · Dec 30, 2005

I knew there were probably quite a few folks that knew about this method, as well as some improvements on the technique. Given some of pictures of hand fashioned boards I've seen, I figured there were quite a few others, like myself, who had no idea that this might be an easy alternative.

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