DIY Printed circuit board. I want to share my personal experience with heat toner transfer method of making PCB.
It's easy to learn for beginners and it delivers very good result for fair price. Do fast prototyping with fun! Enjoy! Making Printed Circuit Boards. Solderless breadboards are the fastest and most flexible way to design and experiment.
When the circuit is ready for more permanent use, there are several methods of connecting components together that are appropriate for one-time designs in robots: Point-to-point soldering can result in a rat’s nest problem. DIY PCB Using Parchment Paper. DIY Flexible Printed Circuits. Get some thin sheets of polyimide which have copper on one or both sides.
Polyimide is a yellow polymer with a high melting temperature and is sometimes called Kapton. A common type of copper-coated polyimide is DuPont "Pyralux" material. Pyralux sheets come in many different varieties of polyimide thickness, copper thickness and adhesive thickness (the "adhesive" is between the copper and polyimide holding everything together.) Copper thickness is given in oz per square foot, while adhesive and Kapton thickness is given in mil (1 mil =0.001 inch). Pyralux LF7062 (pictured) has 1/2 oz Cu, 1/2 mil adhesive and 1 mil Kapton.