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After the fortuitos discover of Kicad in the now far (informatically speaking) 2007, the only Winzozz software that I still use are videogames. In order to create the 3D shape for the components, it is needed a 3D modeler such as Wings 3D. Make PCBs at home with magazine paper and your laser printer. How to make PCBs at home in 1 hour & W I T H O U T special materials What you need You need also: a blade cutter, scotch tape, sandpaper, kitchen paper, cotton wool, vice, hacksaw.

How it works Laser printers and photocopiers use plastic toner, not ink, to draw images. Toner is the black powder that ends up on your clothes and desk when replacing the printer cartridge. Being plastics, toner is resistant to etching solutions used for making PCBs - if only you could get it on copper! Finding the right paper The perfect paper should be: glossy, thin, and cheap. Paper preparation I discard pages heavily printed, preferring pages with normal-size text on white background.

Printer setup Laser printers are not designed for handling thin, cheap paper, so we must help them feeding the sheets manually instead of using the paper tray. Printing Disclaimer: your laser printer is not designed to handle this kind of paper. This is my PC thermometer circuit printed on IEN magazine paper. Iron it! Peeling . Creating Printed Circuit Boards with a INKJET Printer. When I first started looking into how to etch my own printed circuit boards, every Instructable and tutorial I found used a laser printer and ironed on the pattern in some sort of fashion.

I don't own a laser printer but I do have an inexpensive inkjet printer. This Instructable will show you how to use your inkjet printer to etch your own printed circuit boards, as well as be able to display a printed component footprint on the top side of the board giving you a professional looking design. For this instructable you will be working with chemicals and power tools.

Please wear appropriate protective wear. i.e. goggles, latex gloves, etc. The chemicals used in this instructable will stain clothes and your skin. DO NOT pour chemicals down your drain. Properly dispose of chemicals according to your local waste management. You, too, can do 0402! - A Surface Mount PCB Assembly Tutorial.

Schematic capture and PC board layout software is available for free from two PCB vendors (at least), ExpressPCB ( ), and PCB123 ( ). Both vendors' software packages work well and will allow you to create the artwork for your board. Both vendors offer low cost prototype boards. Each vendor has advantages over the other in some area. ExpressPCB offers what they call their MiniBoard service that has to be the best deal in PCB manufacturing. It gives you three 2.5" x 3.8" PCBs for $59, delivered! Express PCB's layout software will show you all the pads in a net when you click on one, but PCB123's layout software goes one step farther by telling you if you've connected the net you're routing to the correct pad when you make the connection.

PCB123 charges $50 to create the stencil file, but ExpressPCB charges $30 for the top copper layer artwork. Another technique that works well on very tight pitch parts is shown here.