[sdiy] Designing front panels for synths

Roman Sowa modular at go2.pl
Thu Oct 15 16:12:04 CEST 2020


It was raw material. I was lucky to get one big sheet of 1-sided copper 
clad epoxy from one of the proffesors at my uni for free. That was in 
times when getting any scrap of copper clad was a challenge. But being 
1-sided and rather old, it was not the best choice for etching a circuit.
This wasn't obviously big enough, so it's 2 parts soldered together.

Roman

W dniu 2020-10-15 o 15:46, Spiros Makris pisze:
> Wow, now that's extreme! Did you buy the board material raw in bulk or 
> is this ordered from some fabhouse? I can't help but think that it would 
> be rather expensive to get this from a fabricator.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 2:01 PM Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl 
> <mailto:modular at go2.pl>> wrote:
> 
>     Here you are, 90kB picture taken just now.
>     The bottom base plate, end cheeks and front bar are made of chipboard.
>     Everything else is PCB (except the keys obviously).
>     The sad thing is also seen in this picture, it's standing in the
>     storage
>     among other sad keyboards :(
> 
>     Roman
> 
>     W dniu 2020-10-15 o 11:41, Adam Inglis (sdiy) pisze:
>      >
>      >
>      >> On 15 Oct 2020, at 6:44 pm, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl
>     <mailto:modular at go2.pl>
>      >> <mailto:modular at go2.pl <mailto:modular at go2.pl>>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> The biggest thing I made out of PCB was 140cm long cover for DIY
>      >> keyboard and it feels almost like made out of 1mm steel, and
>     because
>      >> it's easily solderable, I could build fancy mounting system, so
>     there
>      >> are absolutely no screws on top.
>      >
>      >
>      > OK Roman, you can’t get away with that statement … without a
>     picture!!
>      >   C’mon, we need evidence...
>      >
>      > A
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