Don’t like the dingy brown color of home-made PCBs? Dane Kouttron sent in this how-to on dyeing PCBs using regular old Rit dye found in most grocery stores.
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Don’t like the dingy brown color of home-made PCBs? Dane Kouttron sent in this how-to on dyeing PCBs using regular old Rit dye found in most grocery stores.
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This is awesome – finally a purple PCB!
(manufacturers don’t do purple/violet)
That’s an interesting way of doing it, I posted instructions on my site a couple of weeks ago explaining how dye batches of pcbs in black for my business cards. http://www.aaronalai.com/pcb-board-dyeing
Hi Dane, I’m glad my video documentation came to some use for you! I have a new technique for staining my PCBs now and following quite a few requests for more info, I’ve made a short video to share it. Enjoy, and happy making
http://bit.ly/a8o7c4
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