Homebrew PCBs

> 
> Speaking of old-timers, I used to etch my own circuit boards back in
the 60s
> when I was a teen-ager. I was a little surprised to see so many
people still
> doing it these days with services like ExpressPCB available.

Services like Express are nice, but, if you want to make a small power
supply, screw terminals, regulator, cap, diodes, resistors...  it
costs  $20.00 for each board.

then you want to make a PWM to analog converter, couple resistors,
couple caps and and an op-amp.  Another $20.00

but, since each board is $20 and you have to order 3 boards, the cost
is now $120.00 for those two boards.

I don't know about you, but I can make two boards in an hour and save
myself the $100 on the simple projects.

Dave