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Rolling your circuits in a day: a DIY PCB fab approach
2025-05-24 , Talks room

Cheap and fast Chinese PCB fab's aside, you can set up your own with some effort and tools.
This allows you to create your own printed circuit board in an hour, no precision work required.
A diode laser is used to create an etching mask. Paper masking tape is used to create solder mask, silk screen to create a professional finish. There is even potential to make solder paste stencils for SMT this way.


I'll present my article at https://www.thouters.be/LaserEngravedAndEtchedDiyCircuitBoards.html