On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:20:14AM -0400, V G wrote:

Some snippage...
> > So what you only really need is the copper board. Everything is already
> > lying around somewhere or will last "forever" or costs pennies.
> >
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> I agree, there is a startup cost, but that cost is very cheap and probabl=
y
> less than the cost of a decent sized professionally made PCB. I'd serious=
ly
> rather make them myself. 30 seconds to print, a few minutes to iron, a fe=
w
> minutes to etch, a few minutes to drill/sand and there you have it. I can
> have a design to end product in 30 minutes (done so a few times already).
> And for small things, that's priceless.

I'm looking to get around the drilling and soldering by moving to surfact
mount, etching a solder mask stencil, solder pasting the board, then
grilling it on a hot plate. The solder mask stencil can be created and etch=
ed exactly
the same way as the PCB, so you get a 2-for-1.

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> Compare that to $20 + shipping + 2 weeks. Not worth it in my opinion.

The money isn't really the issue. The time however...

BAJ
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Byron A. Jeff
Department Chair: IT/CS/CNET
College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
Clayton State University
http://cims.clayton.edu/bjeff
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