There's an idea. Use a laser plotter to burn the resist, rather than mill
around the traces. Or burn the traces, and plate before chemical etching.
Alas, I don't have a laser engraver on hand to try.
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From: "Peter May" <peter@...>
To: <homebrew_pcbs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 8:24 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] CNC and UV leds
> Hi all.
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> I recently saw a few articles on using UV leds to expose photoresist
> type boards and have to admit, I have tried various methods and am going
> to try this one. I also did a quick search in this list archives before
> starting this thread.
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> I was wondering in one could concentrate the UV light from a LED via a
> lens like in the laser pointers and create a pin point uv light. Then,
> in making a CNC type machine (yes I belong to the cnc groups as well)
> use this method to simply draw the tracks onto the board directly. One
> would have to create a test run every sop often but I wouldn't mind
> seeing anyone elses posts if they have tried this.
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> Peter
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