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Making Your Own Printed Circuit Board – An Overview, part 1. If you start tinkering with electronics, eventually you will want to make your own printed circuit board, or PCB as it is generally called. In the olden days, this subject was pretty straightforward. You went down to your local RadioShack, and bought an etching kit. You drew your single sided design using a marking pen and some supplied stickers.

The board was fairly big, and it had only a few simple through-hole components. Those days are now pretty much gone. Basic Steps Making a PCB involves several steps. Imaging your design onto a blank PCBEtchingDrillingAmenities – solder mask, silk screen, tin platingVias Each of the steps can be fairly involved and each has its own set of problems. Imaging Methods As I mentioned before, simple circuits can be drawn with a sharpie marker, but these days, you will need to print out something called a mask using CAD software.

Photo Transfer Photo transfer is the most accurate way to image your design and is used commercially. Lada Ada’s PCB Tutorial. Potting electronics with silicone. gEDA Project's Homepage. Welcome. PCB DIY. How you can make perfect PCBs yourself Every now and the I get asked, how I make my printed circuit boards (PCB). Here I give a tutorial on how I achieve verry good results. 0. At a glance 1. Chemical safety 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 0. For the impatient of you, here is a short overview: I am using a positive photo-lithographic process to transfer the artwork to a photosensitized, copper cladded PCB laminate. The stuff I use: 1. These processes involves the use of different chemicals (NaOH, NaS2O8, NaCO3, acetone), some of which may cause severe eye damage, irritation of the skin or holes in clothings.

After use dispose the chemical solutions of properly, especially the etchant will contain a lot of copper ions which are extremly toxic and under no circumstances may be flushed down the drain. 2. There are numerous CAD programs to assist you in this process, currently I am using an old version of EAGLE (4.16) of Cadsoft. In the above picture you can see three of the four films I use in this tutorial.