evandude
New Member
So, I know this guy, who tends to get some wild ideas, which aren't always very practical, but a while ago he told me he had figured out a way to make flexible PCB's at home.
his plan was to take aluminum foil and stick clear packing tape to one side of it, and then etch it like a normal PCB with toner transfer. Granted, his method doesn't seem like the most aesthetic approach, or the most reliable, and i'm not sure how solderable aluminum foil would be :lol: but he claims to have tried it on some simple design and had it work...
But, most importantly, his idea led me to look around at similar but better solutions, and I noticed you can buy thin copper foil for reasonable prices (such as a 12 foot roll of 1 foot wide foil for about $17)... and you could probably buy something like overhead transparency film except on a roll, and then you'd just need to experiment with adhesive. Or, for smaller boards, you could buy the copper foil tape (if you could find it wide enough)...
any thoughts?
his plan was to take aluminum foil and stick clear packing tape to one side of it, and then etch it like a normal PCB with toner transfer. Granted, his method doesn't seem like the most aesthetic approach, or the most reliable, and i'm not sure how solderable aluminum foil would be :lol: but he claims to have tried it on some simple design and had it work...
But, most importantly, his idea led me to look around at similar but better solutions, and I noticed you can buy thin copper foil for reasonable prices (such as a 12 foot roll of 1 foot wide foil for about $17)... and you could probably buy something like overhead transparency film except on a roll, and then you'd just need to experiment with adhesive. Or, for smaller boards, you could buy the copper foil tape (if you could find it wide enough)...
any thoughts?