Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

Just for a laugh:

I just read "Tinker", by Wen Spencer.


It's set in the future, and there's a repeated mention of "circuit
paper".

Anyone in the future who wants to run off a PCB prints with metallic-
bearing inks on peel-n-stick 'paper', then sticks it on a substrate
and surface-mounts components.

One example was applying the circuit paper to human skin.... I
thought maybe some people on this list would find the idea cute.

Obviously it wouldn't be actually wood cellulose-based paper. But
printing on mylar might work if you could attach components with
conductive glue rather than solder.

How about ferric oxide or silver paste (like heat-sink paste)
formulated into standard hot glue sticks?

Later in the novel, they also had markers with metallic inks in a
buckeyball matrix.

I had an idea years ago in my antenna-building phase, of drawing
antennas on glass with conductive ink pens.

Of course mechanically mounting lead wires to the glass would be tricky.