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I'll have to give diptrace a try.

Was playing around with the PCB design in Fritzing and compressed it down a bit. Also found a way to fill in the open areas with a 'copper fill'. This should run much faster. I might paint over the board and give this one a shot.

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Gotta say, This one is looking like a winner. Managed to find a way to do a ground plane and copper fill.

Thanks John! Your advice made me want to pursue this. No I need to drill it and solder it up and see how it works.

Printed out in about an hour, which isn't bad, and I could speed it up by increasing the 'non-laser' speed.

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Brent Dowell said:
Gotta say, This one is looking like a winner. Managed to find a way to do a ground plane and copper fill.

Thanks John! Your advice made me want to pursue this. No I need to drill it and solder it up and see how it works.

Printed out in about an hour, which isn't bad, and I could speed it up by increasing the 'non-laser' speed.

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Glad it worked out! This is a really interesting technique you're using.
 
From a guy that is COMPLETELY in the dark with electronics - I love this thread.

It fit WELL into a "makers" sort of posting.

I would love to be at least functional with electronics and threads like this are simply inspiring.

John - thank you for your postings - even I will watch your soldering videos.
 
Good idea just removing what little needs removed, that should definitely speed up the whole process. Now it's just the hard part... Design.. I always had my EE friends do that, but they've all moved on.
 
Ryan Mooney said:
Good idea just removing what little needs removed, that should definitely speed up the whole process. Now it's just the hard part... Design.. I always had my EE friends do that, but they've all moved on.
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That's what I kind of like about Fritzing. You can sit at the bread board and get it working, then document that using fritzing, and then it just converts it to a PCB layout for you.

Or, you could plan out what to do virtually on fritzing in the breadboard view, then transfer that to the breadboard and test the design. For a non EE person, its pretty easy.
 
Rob Keeble said:
V good pcb Brent. Keep in mind if u making rf comms device you can always use fr4 and etch it to make an antennae.

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Interesting you should mention that. The device this is for (esp-01) is a wifi device that needs programming. This is a programming jig for it. The esp-01 has an onboard etched antenna.
 
Finally got around to soldering it up and I'll be darned, it worked so good I didn't need to program it or anything. Just connected the usb/serial converter and plugged in the ESP-01, opened up a terminal window and was able to connect and type commands and everything. And that is huge, to me at least :rofl:

Finished product. Soldering job was a little sloppy, but it worked!

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