>I have been a member of this group for some time and normally read all
the posts. I design >and build electronics, mostly with embedded
controllers. I went thru the stage of making my >own PCBs way back
>in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I ran a successful business selling
electronic devices then >and throughout the 1990s. I switched to
commercially made boards around 1993 as it was >cost and time effective
to do so. I retired around 1998. For the few projects I did for my own
>interests I used ExpressPCB to do the boards. I am now getting back
into business and have >taken up EagleCad to do the schematics/board
layout stuff. I have begun to use the services >of one of the batch
businesses, DorkbotPDX, to do my board prototypes. My
>boards are for the Arduino Mega and are 8.4 square inches in area.
I started making my own boards in the mid '70s. In those days it was tape and rub down transfer (single sided). I the moved on to Positive20 Resist spray.
And in all this time, I still prefer home rolled.
The reason...pride, I look at a finished project (my own design or a copy of someone Else's) and think....I MADE THAT !!!
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