Sunday, January 27, 2013

PCB designing at home - 1

Many newbie electronic hobbies, try their luck for assembling their components with general purpose PCBs at the beginning. General purpose PCBs are good when there are less number of connection and components. Be designing becomes a challenge when the number of components and connections increases. I also did the same at the beginning which was time consuming and lessens my interest but later i switched to the home made PCB that are fare more easier to make and gives a tidy look to my artifact. Do your experiments on a bread board and deploy them on a Home made PCB. Bingo!

Drawbacks of general PCB are copper loss, heating etc. in case of radio circuit its quite noisy and needs tuning.

General purpose PCB available.

Here i will explain how you can make a PCB of your own @ home itself.

All you need is the list mentioned below.

  1. Magazines or advertising brochures (grab one from your book shelf, the paper should be shiny and glossy)
  2. Laser printer (or a permanent marker)
  3.  Household clothes iron
  4. Copper Clad
  5. Etching solution (Ferric Chloride )
  6. Kitchen scrubs
  7. Thinner
  8. Plastic coated wire



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