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We’ve been doing a lot of trying things out lately, and not a lot of actually getting much done. But sometimes that’s ok, if only to satisfy your own curiosity. One thing that’s been bugging me is how close we got to making some really useful pcbs with… Continue reading →

We went crazy today and splashed out on a new laser printer. The big old Xerox is getting costly to keep buying consumables for, so we got a cheap, compact Brother HL2130 from PC World.Yup, it was extravagant. Yes, we could have got one cheap… Continue reading →

We’ve made about half a dozen different PCBs using our laser etching and laser cutting methods for creating the etch-resistant mask. And while creating the actual mask is relatively straightforward – compared with press-n-peel or exposing photo-sensiti… Continue reading →

This time we tried making a PCB with no “filled plane” between traces. Normally we flood fill all the spaces between traces, just so that the ferric doesn’t have as much exposed copper to etch away. But out of interest, we made up a PCB with no ground … Continue reading →

Brighton Mini Maker Faire is only made possible by the community of visitors, volunteers, makers and sponsors that support us. We’re particularly grateful to our early-stage sponsors; people who enable us to do important things like securing a venue, which … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A real code retreat would be a month of slow hacking + tea brewing. No one would speak. We’d lake swim. We’d delete all the code at the end.— Alex McLean (@yaxu) March 25, 2013

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A real code retreat would be a month of slow hacking + tea brewing. No one would speak. We’d lake swim. We’d delete all the code at the end.— Alex McLean (@yaxu) March 25, 2013

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Since I made my first Arduino-powered MIDI arpeggiator a couple of years back I have been meaning (and promising) to get a kit together so others can build their own. Today I listed my first “fundraiser” on Tindie. Hopefully that will raise enough cash… Continue reading →

Our laser-cut pcbs were certainly quicker to make than using laser-etching (we converted the pcb image to vector and cut out from around the traces rather than using the laser to etch a rasterized bitmap image) and the ferric chloride made a great job … Continue reading →

It’s cold and wet and the nerd cupboard seems such a long way away, and we’ve a pcb here that needs etching. Making up a batch of ferric seems like a bad idea, and storing it in the house could be a pain. What to do?On one of the instructables pages, s… Continue reading →