Year: 2008

DIY: UV Light Box

DIY: UV Light Box

This is a really nice UV light box for making PCBs. It supports double sided boards, has a built in timer, and a safety switch to turn off the unit when opened. Looks like a great alternative to expensive commercial versions. I’m just toying around with this idea at the moment. If I start using […]

Micro-controller based photo-plotter

Micro-controller based photo-plotter

There are several different ways to make printed circuit boards. One of them is using a photo-plotter. What’s a photo-plotter? Keep reading! The project isn’t completed yet, but it’s really interesting and well documented. A photoplotter is a printing device that exposes light to a photo sensitive film to produce output. The film is then […]