On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:34:50 -0400, "Olin Lathrop" said:

> > I am going to etch my own circuit boards,
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> That makes no sense.  That's for penny pinching hobbyists that value
> their
> time at next to nothing.  You are doing this for a real job where your
> hours
> cost your employer real money.

He did not say that. He said he was doing it for a project for
university. Maybe the project requires him to do his own work.

> Unless you
> work for the University of Outer Bizzarristan and get paid a bowl of rice
> and three yak dung paddies a day, you are doing your employer a
> disservice
> by costing more to make a inferior product.

We are actually recruiting yak herders to the Piclist, so if you chose a
different ethnic group to slur that would be good.=20

Or better yet, make your point without any slurs at all.

The points you make about professionally-made boards are all valid, but
solarwind likes etching his own boards, and if this is not a paid
project it could make a lot of sense for him to DIY.

I made a 2 square inch board the other night. Total time, from prepping
the board to drilling, was 20 minutes. Instant gratification, and now
there are three Paradigm Shift Awareness clocks in existence (this new
one has a pushbutton that switches the display to raw Paradigm
Confidence Level):

http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=3D201007087210.pocket_paradigm-shift_awarene=
ss_clock

When I was teaching high school electronics, my students made their own
boards, so my techniques for homemade boards have gotten quite refined
and I can do them quickly and with little fuss. Not as safely as the
setup at the school lab, but at my house with me doing it, it doesn't
need to be.

Sure, twenty minutes of my time is worth more than a two square inch
board, but it was expedient.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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