Now, this is why i love the state of electronics at the moment – especially hobby grade ones. I can go from an idea on a piece of paper, to a working prototype, in… about 3 hours? Something like that. Anyway, in the time its taken since the last post, I have built and coded
UV Light Box Controller – Part 2 Read More »
So setting out to improve my home PCB manufacturing, I am going to build a timer controller for my UV light box – using an Arduino and a few LED’s. nothing overly complex, apart from a Darlington Transistor for controlling the UV array. So after laying down the plan, its on to breadboarding and writing
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So after a bit of experimentation, turns out its less the strength of the sodium hydroxide that matters, more the temperature. Using a water bath at ‘slightly warm’ (technical term :P) with a 1.5% solution, the board developed perfectly. This is after 8 minutes in the exposure box, but still, thats a 10mil trace its
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Currently sat in my garage, waiting for a UV photo resist board to be exposed – trying it at 8 minutes. This is after our first forray into UV pcb’s, where we didn’t expose it for long at all… and it didn’t work. Well, it did, after we put it in an even higher strength
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Welcome! Ok so this is a first post on this recently cleaned out blog, so lets get right into it. I am wanting to do some development on the CanaryMod Server for Minecraft, specifically on the current Crow build. To get that however, I had to get the damn thing down off Git. So obviously,