Rubber Stamping Your Way To Custom PCBs

Many of us now outsource PCB output to board residences abroad, which give significant-excellent boards with significantly remarkable turnaround situations. You could continue to brew up your very own PCB, even though, and a reader found this terrific previous hack from [William Hare] that might be well worth a search.

Neglect toner transfer or marker pens — this build is all about velocity. [William] made a decision to use a rubber stamp to speedily transfer ink to a copper board that can then be etched to deliver a PCB. It’s easy and straightforward ample. We’ve made use of the identical system for silkscreen and pad art, but in no way as an etch resist.

The trick is to make a number of rubber stamps with different circuit things, however. The genius component is that you can then assemble a PCB by simply just stamping down the many circuit parts you want. The boards will however want to be drilled if you’re doing work with by-gap components, but tipster [Shri] notes that the system is tremendous valuable for producing solitary-sided surface area mount boards.

We’ve found some other unique strategies to manufacturing PCBs at household, such as utilizing a 3D printer to aid out. If you have acquired your own innovative homebrew PCB hacks, be certain to drop us a line!

Many thanks [Shri Hari Ram] for the tip!