Toner Transfer and Muriatic Acid Etchant: Making PCBs at LVL1

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Toner Transfer and Muriatic Acid Etchant: Making PCBs at LVL1


Brad Lyuster of Louisville’s LVL1 hackerspace wrote an excellent guide to etching your own PCBs.

A few months ago, the spoiled electrical engineer that I am, I never would have considered making my own PCBs. Any project worth taking off the breadboard was worth sending to China to get made โ€œright.โ€

Of course, there isnโ€™t always time and money to send something to China. Todayโ€™s installment is the Sumo-bot board Iโ€™m trying to put together for the Hive13 sumobot competition. Unfortunately, it doesnโ€™t look like poor Snoopy bot will make it to the ring, but the board making process itself is worth talking about.

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