We purchased one for our daughter at Christmas to use to cut out paper
and vinyl.
I hadn't thought of it for working with solder masks.
It is a light duty machine. Hacking it to carry a focused LED to
expose photo-sensitive PCBs might be an option. If you can find one
for $85 it might be worth giving it a shot.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:33 AM, drmail377 <drmail377@...> wrote:
> Have a look at these machines (coincidentally) named "Circuit" and "Circuit Expression". The Circuit machine has been on sale recently for around $85 USD. They seem to be some sort of automated X-Y paper cutters.
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> I wonder if these could be hacked to cut solder masks, or better yet hacked to cut exposure masks for photo-sensitive PCB's? Anyone have any experience with this? Link:
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> www.provocraft.com
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> Regards, David
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