[sdiy] Fwd: ELEKTOR PCB PROTOTYPING MACHINE

[flight]

Proxxon: http://www.proxxon.com/ 

Dremels are all garbage now.

Best regards,

~flight
http://www.flightofharmony.com 

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: JR <calphool at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] ELEKTOR PCB PROTOTYPING MACHINE
> To: Tim Parkhurst <tim.parkhurst at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> I built a small one myself in order to build my mini clone.... I had
> like 20 single sided boards to do, and I hate the non-professional
> quality of etching based approaches (at least for me), so I decided to
> build one.  It took a few days, and maybe a week or two of fooling
> around to get it perfect, a few retries on dremel bits, but eventually
> I ended up with something that can produce pretty professional (albeit
> spartan - no silkscreen for example) pcbs.  My only complaint (other
> than speed... you can never get enough speed) is that I've never been
> able to get a dremel with good enough bearings and an end mill at the
> right contour to get traces any narrower than .032 inches, which is
> usable, but not ideal.
> 
> You can read about my cnc build (started back in February) in the
> middle of my minimoog clone blog
> (http://sites.google.com/site/minimoogwiki)
> 
> Joe
>