Ah, that new advanced camera remote control I was building is more or less in its final stages… looks kinda good:

NOT!

Guess I need to start working on miniturising it and giving it a proper circuit board…

The problem:
PCB fabrication costs a lot in my country. Getting them done by custompcb or batchpcb ends up being just as expensive due to S&H. So now what?

The solution:
Build your own PCB fab!

This project’s only at its infancy since I only started shortly before my school final examinations, but everything’s already planned.

I’ll be modifying an Epson inkjet printer for printing the etch resist (bought this off at a sale, now its waiting to be gutted):

(See the stack of parts I’ve ordered for this (and other) projects beside the printer?

I’ll also be building my own CNC (you know, just to make things a bit overkill)… Not really clear yet here. I’ve decided on the hobbycnc pro driver kit, should be arriving in a week or so:
http://www.hobbycnc.com/products/hobbycnc-pro-c...

But I’m torn between getting a plan designed by others for the machine or designing myself. I’m not a very good CAD designer and have never fabricated anything larger than simple ornaments. I also can’t find a place that cuts pieces for me without requirements for mass production, so I’ll have to cut them myself.

Why not leave me a comment at the bottom with a suggestion to my dilema?

And my first board to be fabricated would be a chorus/reverb stompbox I promised my friend, since I’ve already got the layout ready:

(That’s a whole lot of parts and receipts!)

Let’s see how things go…