[sdiy] Personal Pcb milling machines ???

[john slee]

On 31 December 2015 at 06:09, <rsdio at audiobanshee.com> wrote:
>
> I believe it's a lot of work to master the many steps required to finish a
> board this way. I suppose it can be faster than ordering a board from an
> outside shop, but you'll be spending a lot of time that you could use more
> productively on something else.


One of the regulars at a hackerspace here often mills + drills his own
PCBs. As you say there was a substantial investment of time, but only once
while he was figuring out his workflow. He seems to turn them around fairly
quickly now. It's no cheaper per area than OSHPark, Seeed or similar, but
the turnaround time is plenty better. He's generally only doing one-sided
boards, so no registration holes required.

I suppose with registration holes you could mill both sides. With a bit of
care and some resistor leg offcuts you could even do vias

John
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