Homebrew PCBs

Has anyone ever tried this?

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Flexible-Printed-Circuits/

My previous employer had several xerox printers and I always wanted to try it, but had no need or idea where to get the FPC.

PG

On 14/07/2010, at 12:45 AM, javaguy11111 wrote:

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> What started me looking at this is that I bought a PSOC5 developer board for testing and wanted to hook up an LCD display to it. Sparkfun had some Nokia displays for 2.95 that I wanted to use. The problem is that they have no connectors. Just bare ITO traces, which have an oddball spacing of 1.15mm. 
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> The next issue is to figure out how to bond the connector to the ITO.
> 3M sells an anisotropic conductive adhesive, but they charge several hundred dollars for a hundred feet. Mechanical would be another option, but I just do not like that in this case.
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> My thought is to make my own anisotropic conductive using powder coating paint mixed with some conductive powder such as graphite or copper. A combination of heat and pressure would bond the flex connector to the ITO and conductive particles would be trapped between the copper and ITO connectors. Another experiment to perform.
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> In the mean time, since I just want to play with my LCD and PSOC5 board and not get sidetracked on other things, I am going the silver epoxy route to attach the wires to the ITO.
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> I will do some more experimenting with flex cables and bonding at some point in the future.
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Villeneuve <andrewmv@...> wrote:
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> > This is remarkably useful! I've often wanted to rework flex cables, but it
> > had never occurred to me that there was a viable homebrew way of doing this.
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