[sdiy] very basic pcb

[Tom Wiltshire]

You could try press-n-peel or one of the cheap alternatives. You  
print the PCB design onto a plastic film using toner (e.g. laser  
printer or photocopier) and then iron it onto the cleaned pcb. Some  
people use a laminator for this step. Then you peel the plastic off,  
and the toner stays stuck to the PCB, making an excellent etch- 
resist. Now you stick it in a tub of your favourite nasty chemical  
just like the old days and etch it.

Here's a few links from google to get you started;

http://www.semis.demon.co.uk/PCB/PCB.html
http://www.techniks.com/how_to.htm

This guy discusses some of the other alternatives too:

http://www.solarbotics.net/library/techniques/buildpcb_trnsfr.html

Hope this helps,
Tom

On 18 Mar 2010, at 09:32, John Alex Hvidlykke wrote:

> Hi Dennis
>
> I would like to know that too.
>
> I am at the exact same point, having taken up electronics after a  
> 25 years
> hiatus. Until now I have been using perf board for my projects.
>
> BTW. I have a sizeable collection of basic components lefter over  
> from back
> then, but I have to scrape off decades of oxidation before use ;-)
>
> \John (in Denmark)
>
>
>
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>> Emne: [sdiy] very basic pcb
>>
>>
>>
>> I haven't made a pc board in many years, so my knowledge is way
>> out of date.
>>
>> I want to make a very simple board that has 5 surface mount  
>> relays, some
>> diodes, and a few connectors.
>>
>> What's the way to make a cheap board? Does one print something,  
>> and then
>> etch it somehow?
>> Express PCB software good for anything if i don't want to send
>> off to have
>> a board made?
>> (Seem a bit excessive for this tiny one off thing.)
>>
>> I recall writing on copper with a marker, and then soaking a  
>> board, but
>> that was 25 years ago.
>> Things must have improved?
>>
>> Or should I just use some kind of perf board and wires?
>>
>> Dennis [Los Angeles]
>>
>>
>>
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