http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:54:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is an easy way to create your own PCBs at home. The method is based on the "5 Bears" process (which is itself based on Tom Gootee's process). The home made pcb method had 11 easy to follow steps and will ensure a quality pcb manufacturing end result. Create Your ... http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/diy-pcb/138/home-made-pcb-easy-pcb-manufacture.html PCB etching in 5 steps presented on instructables.com. A simple 5-step process to etch your own printed circuit boards at home. You'll need the following ingredients: laser printer/photocopier & transparencies copper board scrubbing pads iron rubber gloves Ferric Chloride or Ammonium Persulphate drill and drill bits 1. PCB Design and print Design your PCB. I use anything from Adobe ... http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/etch/130/pcb-etching-in-5-steps.html Golden Gate Graphics is a printed circuit design service bureau located in Colorado and their designers' motto for PCB layout and schematic capture is: Create a Perfect Duplicate on the Engineer's Intentions. goldengategraphics.com's mainstay is doing printed circuit layouts for electrical engineers who are developing electronic products targeted for eventual mass ... http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/design/121/colorado-pcb-design-services-golden-gate-graphics.html How to make your own printed circuit boards (PCBs) using a laserjet printer presented by MakeMagazine. In the video they use the toner transfer method: print your pcb layout using a laser printer and then tranfer the toner from a sheet of paper on a sheet of copper. http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/diy-pcb/117/printed-circuit-boards-on-laserjet.html SMT PCB testing circuit board presented here is ideal for experiments with SMD components. The four identical zones with copper isolated "islands" permits connections of almost all SMD components and even integrated circuits. SMT PCB test board http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/diy-pcb/114/smt-pcb-testing-circuit-board.html SMD soldering - At first, I tinned all the circuit board pads for the SMD chips before trying to mount them. That was a mistake. With both pads for chip tinned, heating up one end of the chip caused the situation in Figure 5. When heat was applied to the ... http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/soldering/102/smt-smd-soldering.html There are some stripboard (Veroboard) design software available on the internet and and we like to present you some of the best. Stripboard is a widely-used type of electronics prototyping board characterized by a 0.1 inch (2.54 mm) regular (rectangular) grid of holes, with wide parallel strips of copper cladding ... http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/software/88/veroboard-stripboard-software.html You need a PCB design software or tool to put in practice the new electronic project you've just designed? So, we present you 10 of the best free PCB layout software tools available on the internet. 10 Free PCB layout design software ZenitPCB - is an excellent pcb layout software tool ... http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/software/67/10-pcb-design-layout-software.html How to create a DIY PCB ready for etching, using low-cost toner transfer method, using photo laser paper ? In 10min ? Thermal method DIY PCB fabrication tutorial Watch this video tutorial and discover how to do a printed circuit board by the thermal method using photographic printer paper with printer ... http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/diy-pcb/53/pcb-toner-transfer-and-photo-laser-paper.html Double-sided printed circuit boards have wiring patterns on both sides of the insulating material, i.e. the circuit pattern is available both on the components side and the solder side. Obviously, the component density and the conductor lines are higher than the single-sided boards. Two types of double-sided boards are commonly ... http://www.printedcircuitsboards.com/wiki/47/double-sided-pcb.html