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Interesting idea, but the generic green PCB is a bit of a missed opportunity. Some manufacturers now offer transparent solder masks which emphasize the copper t
by jsheard 1y ago
Interesting idea, but the generic green PCB is a bit of a missed opportunity. Some manufacturers now offer transparent solder masks which emphasize the copper traces and can look really cool with a clean PCB layout.
e.g. https://hackaday.io/project/194683-plasma-toroid-sky-guided-pcb-edition/log/230233-9-black-fr-4-and-transparent-soldermask-by-pcbway https://hackaday.io/project/194683-plasma-toroid-sky-guided-...
- nitros 1y agoIt's also becoming possible to have transparent rigid PCBs as of quite recently: https://www.pcbway.com/blog/News/Transparent_Rigid_PCBs_Launch_a391cf64.html https://www.pcbway.com/blog/News/Transparent_Rigid_PCBs_Laun... Naturally it does mean you can't have a ground pour, so the PCB needs to be designed to look nice with it.
- llbbdd 1y agoThis sounds sick, I looked for a photo and couldn't find one that seemed to be this specifically, just lots of the flexible ones, do you know if there's a photo ref somewhere?
- chias 1y agoWorth noting that it's nine times the price (according to the link you posted)
- iancmceachern 1y agoPcbs are super cheap, 9x $2 is still cheap
- OisinMoran 1y agoThis is gorgeous! I knew you could get different colo(u)red PCBs but had no idea about transparent solder masks. Even more reason to "Melt your circuit boards" video: https://youtu.be/euJgtLcWWyo https://youtu.be/euJgtLcWWyo blog: https://mitxela.com/projects/melting_kicad https://mitxela.com/projects/melting_kicad