Does It Make Sense To Hand Make Printed Circuit Boards?

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.

Comments

Re:He has got some points

[stooo]

a good modern alternative to wire wrap for SMD components :

http://elm-chan.org/docs/wire/...

Used that for some very fine pitch, nice results for one-offs.

I recommend experimenting with different wire thickness and insulations (some enameling is made to be burned off when soldering, and there's an optimal diameter around 0,3mm)

Re: Yes

[necro81]

Also these, from Adafruit. Depending on the size, they only cost about $1 apiece. That's expensive for production but, if your time is worth anything to you, is well worth it for prototyping.