Homebrew PCBs

It is a bit of an issue, but it does work with elastic pressure.
Here you see one of the first boards i made with legend on copper, i  
believe the first or second ever:
<http://trethan.at.tf/pub/comp_bot.jpg>
It is on 18u copper, which makes for smaller steps and no break, sometimes.
I haven't really worked on it much, since i avoid having important  
information in the gaps, i put the text on copper and use a ground  
plane/copper pour usually. You can't read so well across the contrasting  
surfaces anyway.

I dunno how it can be done with an iron, i think with something like a  
silicone baking sheet you mightn't get enough pressure per area. But Steve  
said there are such sheets for use in t-shirt presses, i think...

About the laminator, the deal seemes to have been pretty lame from the  
reports here. I'm not sure anyway if those laminators have a rubber roller  
or two metal ones.

ST



On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:12:19 +0100, soffee83 <soffee83@...> wrote:

> Stefan,
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> Thanks! That's sort of what I figured when I tried it, but I use the
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> iron here, so I'm not sure I could do the exact same thing. I thought
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> that maybe a folded-over wet paper towel would give it some "squish"
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> for the last couple ironings, but it didn't help much. This thing I
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> was doing is sort of a weird one anyway. It's a proto-circuit for
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> testing a PIC based hardware controller, so it' ..