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Making Printed Circuit Boards. High Quality and Low Price (From the Bathroom Sink). Ways to Make PCBs. Tape and Etch Iron-on Resist Board House Ares Lite and Kepro Products. Ares Lite. Unlimited number of holes when licensed Inexpensive, and with an education discount
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Making Printed Circuit Boards High Quality and Low Price (From the Bathroom Sink)
Ways to Make PCBs • Tape and Etch • Iron-on Resist • Board House • Ares Lite and Kepro Products
Ares Lite • Unlimited number of holes when licensed • Inexpensive, and with an education discount • Pick and place components • Draw traces • Create ground plain • Documentation in the top silk • www.labcenter-electronics.com
D and L Pro (DALPro) • Presensitized boards (4” by 6” and up) • Developer (washing soda) • Etchants (sodium persulfate) • Carbide drill bits • www.dalpro.net
To Build or Buy • UV Table • Foot Massager • Photographic trays and beaker • Zip lock bags • Bug Light
The Process • Design a PCB in Ares Lite • Print paper copies • Make a transparency (a UV mask) • Expose PCB through the mask • Develop • Etch • Strip • Drill • Solder!