Haha, no, I've never seen him in person. I know he lives in the area though :lol:
I've also seen a few of the places he's filmed his movies, like the abandoned waterworks where much of "the graveyard shift" was filmed.
And yes, I make my PCB's quite cheaply. I have only a couple hundred dollars invested, and most of that is in the printer, drill stand, drill, drill bits, and small saw to cut the PCB's. But the drill is a dremel rotary tool which I already bought for other purposes, and the printer was only about $50 and I needed one anyway since my piece of junk inkjet printer died.
But when it comes to the cost of the "consumable" stuff... well the toner use is negligible, the press-n-peel is about $1.50 a sheet but I get dozens of boards out of each sheet, so that's just pennies... I pay on the order of a couple cents per square inch of PCB material... even with the cost of etching solution, the total cost of each board is under a dollar.