Making Printed Circuit Boards

High Quality and Low Price

(From the Bathroom Sink)

Ways to Make PCBs

• Tape and Etch

• Iron-on Resist

• Board House

• Ares Lite and Kepro Products

Ares Lite• Unlimited number of holes when licensed

• Inexpensive, and with an education discount

• Pick and place components

• Draw traces

• Create ground plain

• Documentation in the top silk

• www.labcenter-electronics.com

D and L Pro (DALPro)

• Presensitized boards (4” by 6” and up)

• Developer (washing soda)

• Etchants (sodium persulfate)

• Carbide drill bits

• www.dalpro.net

To Build or Buy

• UV Table

• Foot Massager

• Photographic trays and beaker

• Zip lock bags

• Bug Light

The Process

• Design a PCB in Ares Lite• Print paper copies• Make a transparency (a UV mask)• Expose PCB through the mask• Develop• Etch• Strip• Drill• Solder!