https://dawning.ca/tags/assembly/Recent content in Assembly onHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright © James SnellThu, 30 Jul 2009 07:02:04 +0000https://dawning.ca/posts/first-pcb/Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:02:04 +0000https://dawning.ca/posts/first-pcb/ <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 300px;"> <img src="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2009/07/PCB0.png" alt=""> <figcaption>My very first PCB</figcaption> </figure> <p>Well, with the priceless aid of my dear friend <a href="http://happythawts.deviantart.com/">HappyThawts</a>, I&rsquo;ve managed to produce my first home-made Printed Circuit Board!</p> <h2 id="how-it-went">How it went</h2> <p>There were a bunch of weird issues that came up in making it and thus it&rsquo;s not all that ideal, though I could hack it to work. The main challenge was that my copper clad boards were actually covered with PhotoResist (for masking boards via UV). The process we used entailed working directly on a layer of Copper. Thankfully Happy realized that Acetone would probably send the PhotoResist on it&rsquo;s merry way to aqueous exile in my trash-chemicals bucket. She was dead-on there.</p>