{"id":136,"date":"2007-01-02T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T17:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/02\/homebrew-printed-circuit-boards\/"},"modified":"2007-01-02T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T17:11:14","slug":"homebrew-printed-circuit-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/02\/homebrew-printed-circuit-boards","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Printed Circuit Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started making my own PC boards. I spent a lot of time perusing the archives of the Homebrew PCB Yahoo group and am using the toner-transfer method with a cheap Samsung laser printer. I tried using the Pulsar paper but unfortunately it doesn&#8217;t work with my printer. I have obtained very good results with Epson Glossy Photo Paper (yes, the stuff made for inkjet printers) and a GBC Personal Laminator. Here&#8217;s a photo of my most recent board (click the little image to see a full-sized one):<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/v\/studionebula\/modular\/misc\/my_pcb.JPG.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionebula.com\/gallery\/d\/13174-2\/my_pcb.JPG\" width=\"150\" height=\"114\" alt=\"my_pcb\" title=\"my_pcb\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>To give you a sense of scale, there are pads and holes for an 8-pin DIP near the lower-left corner. The square SMT array near the center is for a 64-pin TQFP Atmel microcontroller. It&#8217;s a double-sized board but the other side is less interesting; it&#8217;s mostly just a ground plane.\n<\/p>\n<p>I found a couple of traces that weren&#8217;t quite complete because I scratched the toner but I bridged them with solder. I&#8217;m quite pleased with the results. I&#8217;d still use a commercial fabrication house if I had to do more than a couple of the same PC board, but for one-offs I&#8217;ll definitely do them by hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started making my own PC boards. I spent a lot of time perusing the archives of the Homebrew PCB Yahoo group and am using the toner-transfer method with a cheap Samsung laser printer. I tried using the Pulsar paper but unfortunately it doesn&#8217;t work with my printer. I have obtained very good results with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/02\/homebrew-printed-circuit-boards\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homebrew Printed Circuit Boards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}