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I am wondering about the drilling aspect. I think it is certainly a
challenge and I am tempted more and more to figure out a different
approach.

I have started wondering what drill holes I actually need? With SMT
components I may well be able to get away without. It certainly seems
like any serious attempt at a double sided board would require many
holes and well this might be a very long process. It does not sound
impossible but it does sound like it might take a long time. So maybe
I design will be required to be single sided.

So the only thing left might be mounting of the glass circuit board.
For this there is many different approaches based on the actual
project. I think I could probably get away without drilling.

I think I would like to drill in the future but maybe to start with I
will try a single sided board to see how it goes.

Hopefully I will produce this over the next few weeks and put some
pictures up.

Trev