Hi,
I am just curious on this one, but for me making pcb (especially doing the etching part), is quite inconvenient.
I have no space to put the equipment, and the only place I could imagine putting it, is the garage, which has temperatures below 10C celcius for a good part of the year.
Then ordering prototype pcb's by sending your designs over the net, and getting a pcb shipped home, would be ideal, apart for the fact of the several day turn around time and the costs. (I live in Sweden, I have not found anything quick, and that delivers there, for reasonable cost).
So, I am sort of stuck with these experimental PCB boards, that have a number of isles on them, and you solder you components in them, like a regular PCB. Except that now you also need to connect the correct isles together. I started doing that with wires, but that became a big mess. Then I played (I was lazy) with paperclips, using them to connect the isles together. It worked like magic. It did not look messy, and you could figure out which was connected where quite easily. And as an added bonus you do not need to strip them, like wires.
Anyway, I was wondering, did anyone else found out this way of putting together circuits? And am I missing obviously much better technique (not only quality, but also when it comes to time-from-changes-to-circuit)
Regards
DaC
I am just curious on this one, but for me making pcb (especially doing the etching part), is quite inconvenient.
I have no space to put the equipment, and the only place I could imagine putting it, is the garage, which has temperatures below 10C celcius for a good part of the year.
Then ordering prototype pcb's by sending your designs over the net, and getting a pcb shipped home, would be ideal, apart for the fact of the several day turn around time and the costs. (I live in Sweden, I have not found anything quick, and that delivers there, for reasonable cost).
So, I am sort of stuck with these experimental PCB boards, that have a number of isles on them, and you solder you components in them, like a regular PCB. Except that now you also need to connect the correct isles together. I started doing that with wires, but that became a big mess. Then I played (I was lazy) with paperclips, using them to connect the isles together. It worked like magic. It did not look messy, and you could figure out which was connected where quite easily. And as an added bonus you do not need to strip them, like wires.
Anyway, I was wondering, did anyone else found out this way of putting together circuits? And am I missing obviously much better technique (not only quality, but also when it comes to time-from-changes-to-circuit)
Regards
DaC