[Noisebridge-discuss] PCB Milling Kickstarter

Gopiballava Flaherty gopiballava at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 05:30:26 UTC 2012


What Jonathan said! If you can solder SMT parts, then you can make really compact boards that aren't that many square inches and thus are cheap. 

Thanks,

gopi at iPhone


On Jan 26, 2012, at 21:12, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org> wrote:

> Note that the CNC mill in the shop does a perfectly serviceable job of
> milling circuit boards, Josh M even got it to drill.
> 
> Details on the wiki:  https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/MaxNCMill
> 
> Also note that it's noisy and takes a while. I made several boards
> successfully with it, up to roughly Arduino complexity. A pic:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/headrotor/6769242279/
> 
> I've kind of lost interest in using it after several people decided it
> was "broken" and needed "fixing" (it wasn't, and pieces were lost.)
> And there's really no substitute for professional fabs, which are
> cheap and excellent. (And thanks Andy for providing a stunning example
> of why ferric chloride is messy and generally not worth the hassle.)
> 
> Seriously, for the price of a bottle of FeCl3 you can get Laen up at
> DorkbotPDX to make you three awesome protoboards;
> 
> http://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/pcb_order
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Robert Belknap <rbelknap at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I saw this kickstarter project over on the Adafruit blog the other
>> day. I thought it looked interesting, but I definitely don't have the
>> funds to kick down for one. (Heck, I'm not even a dues paying member,
>> just an occasional user of the space who kicks in a donation when
>> visiting.)
>> 
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/977338529/mezzomill-carves-circuits-from-cad
>> 
>> Unless something major happens in the next couple of days, I don't
>> think he's going to reach is funding goal, but something like this
>> might be fun to have in the fab-lab, no?
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