solarwind wrote:
> By using techniques at home to make your own PCB, is it practical and
> possible to make a board capable of mounting very fine pitch SOIC
> chips (such as the PIC32, which is 0.4 mm pitch)?

If you use the photo method (using presensitized PCBs) may give you enough 
accuracy. Laser printer transfer method, probably not practical. I've done 
both in the past, but not for 0.4 mm pitch devices.

Unless you are on a very tight budget, I would recommend ordering your PCB 
from a professional board house. Advanced Circuits (4pcb.com) let you buy a 
two-layer PCB for $33, as long as you ship it to a school address. Then 
there's Sparkfun's BatchPCB.com: http://www.batchpcb.com/

Vitaliy 

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