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Does It Make Sense To Hand Make Printed Circuit Boards?

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-it-yourself-or-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A Hackaday author told the hackers that it isn't worth making your own PC boards anymore. Good tools, fast shipping, and cheap manufacturing capacity means that spending a day making a board that is much worse than a 'pro' board just isn't worthwhile anymore. The reaction was worse than when Kirk told the Star Trek fans to get a life. Although there have been some who agree, many of the readers have taken it as an affront to their very way of life.

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  1. Re:Needless assumption by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The author assumes the goal is to get a working board.

    Shocking.

  2. Kirk? by Coisiche · · Score: 4, Funny

    The reaction was worse than when Kirk told the Star Trek fans to get a life.

    Shatner surely. It would all be a bit meta for James Kirk to decry Star Trek fans.

  3. Re: Yes by DrLang21 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you saying that you craft your own PCBs that can take a BGA package? You are either insane or a genius.

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    I see the glass as full with a FoS of 2.