Extremely Cheap custum circuit boards.

jashhash

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Today while I was at Home Depot I was in the check out Isle when something caught my attention. I saw a roll of foil tape. Basically all it is is tin foil with a sticky backing, although a little thicker than normal tin foil. Well I bought a roll thinking it might be handy.
Now at home i began playing with the stuff and found out that you can cut this tape into realy small pieces and can even lay out a circuit board by putting pieces of tape on an index card or maybe a sheet of plastic. by using an exacto knife I can prety much lay out any circuit board I need. Plus you can make the circuit board really thin like 1/32 of an inch or so.

Has anyone else experimented with foil tape?
 

jashhash

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Hmmm. Yes it is difficult to solder to this material. I Can get soldier to set on it but its difficult to get it to stick.
 

andrewwynn

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perfect timing... i have to make a prototype that would be very difficult to make another way.. i think this may be the perfect answer.

-awr
 
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