hi LULZ can someone please help me in a direction on where to look for items needed to make this? i bought a soldering item, only to realize this probably isnt made with tin - is it made when printing the pcb board? sorry for the inconvenience, thanks in advance
they didnt make this themselves they probably only designed it and sent it to a pcb fab
thank you
any anons have PCB fab recommendations? sending a design to have professionals do it would probably net best results, although trying to make it myself could be a fun project
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stated you could maybe make this on your own if you want lung cancer or something. I've heard of a method involving laser printers and copper sheets. The fab depends on your area. I get a ton of results when I search 'pcb fab india'.
ill probably refrain from experimenting with it myself, i've downloaded kicad as mentioned here
and looking for someone to fabricate my custom design of 1 when i've learned how to do it
It's near trivial to have PCBs made these days in china. They usually have minimum order limits, but we're talking like 20 bucks. An image like this is trivial, it's a single layer PCB with a copper layer and a mask layer, with all the bare copper being plated so it's golden and doesn't tarnish.
>with all the bare copper being plated so it's golden and doesn't tarnish.
That's the part that costs $20, though.
Plating with solder is available, which cuts the cost back considerably.
so there isnt any silkscreen print in OP image?
The [A-Z] PRocessor might be silk screened, but all the rest looks plated copper.
thank you
It's not silk screened, it just doesn't have any solder mask around it so you can see the base substrate.
You can basically have 4 colors. Copper (with coating), solder mask over copper, solder mask over substrate, and substrate.
As already said, this is done professionally by a fab. You can do it yourself by printing out the design and then use some quite hazardous chemicals, which can scar you for life if you're clumsy.
It's your choice anon, you have been warned.
That is a printed circuit board normally referred to as a PCB. Usually they are designed using specialized design tools like KiCad (free, open source). When you have a design you normally send it to a company (PCB fab) that would fabricate it for you which is less expensive than you would think depending on what kind of board you want. I never did, so I can't reccomend a fab. People used to make their own by buying boards and etching paths into them, but it is a pain and I would avoid it. Search youtube for 'PCB etching'.
Soldering irons are used to connect components to the PCB. With through-hole components you basically you pull a cable through a hole and fill it with molten tin. There are also surface mount components. Youtube is your friend.
wait im in kicad now and there is this option to overlay a bitmap image ('.')
can help. Check the electronics general. You're looking at PCB silkscreen artwork. You can create your own in any PCB software like Eagle and then manufacture it in China using PCBWay or DirtyPCBs (or do it yourself, but it's messy)
thank you, currently the websites ive found only offers fabrication of 5 prints, and i only really need 1
They usually have a production minimum that you can't avoid since they need to set up the masking to print etc.
Get the 5 then you have 4 you can give away/keep for later.
sounds like a good rationale; 5 it is.
It doesn't make sense for companies to do one-off print runs.
They're so cheap, just get five. That's what I did.
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