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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:He has got some points by stooo · · Score: 5, Informative

    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)

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