This week I teamed up with Xander Hudson to make PCBs. Besides being pretty, making your own printed circuit boards is fun and you can have a prototype board ready in a few hours.
First you need a design. There are a bunch of timer circuits in the latest issue of Make: that are begging for circuit boards. There are lots of designs online at places like discovercircuits.com
Eagle CAD has a bit of a steep learning curve, but it’s got a library of parts that you can drag and drop onto the board that make getting everything the right size and proportion easy.
If you don’t want to design your own circuit, you can download all the source files, including a pdf, and print them out on a laser printer out to make the Make: Light. – Link (Zip File)
Also, make sure to download the pdf that goes along with this podcast that includes a great article by Andrew Argyle that includes material lists and step by step instructions. – Link
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Very nice, I’ve used this method before with varying degrees of success.
I wonder, what are the smallest size traces that you’d be able to get using this method?
Nice crack on Boston boys! And inspiring tutorial. I really want to try this someday.
Awesome video.
Boiling hot water penetrates the paper better.
i’ve seen a hackaday post on making a usb to rs232, even got a free sample. no i just need a laser printer :(
http://www.hackaday.com/2007/04/08/rs-232-usb-madness/
btw thats like 8 connections in the space of 1cm.
p.s.
can’t you release a non itunes product. your site is all about making your own gear yet your lock up the rss into only itunes :( so sad.
@whatsup_Will
If you’re in Windows, use Juice:
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
and the XML podcast linkage bizness:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/index.xml
in the make light on the schematics . what is —
on blink jp1 . sum help wood be nice .
can sum one till me what it is .
Hey ppl this is an awesome website but if any on here can u answer my question? Okay here it goes, Can you make your own music video here? Show me put the page where it is but plz it has to be save ;)