I wasn't talking about a home-version either... Besides, you could produce the tracks via my laser-method and then glue them to the fiberglas. Then, you would get around that little temp problem. Kyrre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olin Lathrop" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [EE]: Printer to PCB? > > OK, what I'd like to see is a system using laser to heat/melt copper > powder > > so that it sticks to a bare fiberglass board. To do this you will first > > have to coat the board and that wouldn't be hard as fine grained copper > acts > > a bit sticky by itself and youy can simply distribute it aboput evenly > over > > the board and press it down with a roller. > > Now... To heat the copper we use a laser. The cool thing now is that > we > > can either do raster mode, or we can do vector-based tracing. The > latter > > would give great control :-) > > > > Problem is getting a laser powerful enough. If it's focused finely > enough > > this shouldn't be too big a problem... > > > > Whaddya think ? > > You should look into the melting temperature of copper with respect to the > temperature at which the resin in the fiberglass stops working. > > Doesn't sending your boards to Advanced Circuits or PCB Express sound > pretty good by now? It's been entertaining watching the each flaky idea > trump the next on this thread, but it's getting a bit rediculous now. > > > ***************************************************************** > Embed Inc, embedded system specialists in Littleton Massachusetts > (978) 742-9014, http://www.embedinc.com > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu