https://dawning.ca/tags/pcb/Recent content in PCB onHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright © James SnellSat, 08 Aug 2009 16:43:15 +0000https://dawning.ca/posts/first-decent-pcb/Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:43:15 +0000https://dawning.ca/posts/first-decent-pcb/ <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 83px;"> <a href="http://www.charlottefurneaux.com/"><img src="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2009/08/PCB2.png" alt=""></a> <figcaption>HappyThawts</figcaption> </figure> <figure style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; max-width: 124px;"> <a href="https://dawning.ca/pix/album/72157621850384333/pcb-etching-pre-run.html"><img src="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2009/08/PCB1.png" alt=""></a> <figcaption>Transferred Toner</figcaption> </figure> <p>Well, a few of us <a href="http://www.protospace.ca">Protospace</a>rs met up and worked out some more home-made cheap Printed Circuit Board progress.. Vast thanks to the help of my esteemed friend <a href="http://www.charlottefurneaux.com/">HappyThawts</a>, we finally got out a board of usable quality! Woot! We used a <a href="http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardSerialSingleSided3">single sided Arduino</a> pattern I found (saved me some seri</p> <p>ous time). And followed a <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Sponge-Ferric-Chloride-Method-Etch-Circuit-Bo/">fairly well documented process</a> involving use of Ferric Chloride, Acetone, Clothing Irons, Cheap Magazine Paper, Water and patience.</p>https://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>