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From: ANT_THOMAS
26 Jan 2015 13:12
To: koswix
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I've clicked about a bit more and it's made me want to design a PCB.
Are these things cheap to get made?
From: ANT_THOMAS
26 Jan 2015 13:47
To: ANT_THOMAS
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I think the answer is no from a quick search. £80-100 seems to be the figure for the size I might want.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
26 Jan 2015 16:18
To: Chris (CHRISSS)
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Don't pull that out at the airport.
From: koswix
26 Jan 2015 17:09
To: ANT_THOMAS
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There's a few options for making the PCB.
You can order them from a PCB fab place, but it really doesn't make financial sense unless you're doing a fairly big run of boards. I read a while ago about a new service someone was setting up getting small batches done via China for pretty cheap (compared to normal prices, anyway). Can't remember what it was called.
Making your own: Simplest way is toner transfer to transfer the layout to a copper board, and then you chemically etch the rest of the copper off. Can be hit and miss (I've heard) with small traces - depends on your print quality/transfer quality.
An interesting alternative is to use a CNC mill to remove the unneeded copper, with precision being governed by the quality of your CNC machine.
From: koswix
26 Jan 2015 17:11
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(the other other method is to be at Uni, where they have proper PCB manufacturing kit that can do plated through-holes, multi layers, masks, type etc. )
From: ANT_THOMAS
26 Jan 2015 17:56
To: koswix
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I might get you to make me one then....!
Otherwise I saw the toner transfer one, getting the chemicals to do the job should be easy for me. Might give that a go.
From: koswix
26 Jan 2015 19:46
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Sadly I don't get direct access to it, have a friendly lecturer who's happy to get stuff done for me for my silly projects but not sure he'd be happy to extend that to "this guy in met on the Internet."...
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
26 Jan 2015 22:08
To: ANT_THOMAS
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How big so you want it? An American site doing 3 copies of a 2 layer board for $5 per square inch + $5
delivery
shipping.
EDITED: 26 Jan 2015 22:20 by CHRISSS
From: ANT_THOMAS
26 Jan 2015 22:22
To: Chris (CHRISSS)
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I was thinking 20cm x 15cm. That's probably on the big side.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
26 Jan 2015 23:04
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That'd work out pretty expensive then. I suppose even a few inches each side wouldnt be cheap. Could you squash it into 1"x1"?
;)