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RE: Making Circuit Boards

Posted by adam@denderapartners.com (A) on June 21, 2015 at 18:21:42

In Reply to: Making Circuit Boards posted by Triode_Kingdom on June 21, 2015 at 18:03:24:

TK, this method is SO much work, does a lousy, ugly job, and is just not worth it in any sense. You'll put in hundreds of dollars in effort and aggravation before you get a single working board. And I speak as a guy who's tried every DIY technique imaginable for making boards, including setting up my own plated-through-holes lab and DIY etching.

Why go to that much trouble when you can have a batch of double-sided plated-through-hole boards done overnight for around 100 bucks? I use Bay Area Circuits in the SF Bay area all the time for this, their boards are great quality and they have never let me down. I have no affiliation with them, they are just the best fab house I've found for quick jobs.

All you need for the layout part of the job is FreePCB. A decently shallow learning curve to get going, plenty powerful for anything I have thrown at it, and....it's free!

For quick hand made prototypes, I buy 4x5 pieces of board, covered with plated thru holes on a 0.1 inch spacing. Cost is only about 12 bucks! You can order these with and without a ground plane as well. You can find them

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