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There’s some really cool stuff to find if you wander around a Michaels craft shop or Hobby Lobby long enough. Recently, [Ben] picked up a craft cutter – a small vinyl cutter-like device meant for scrapbooking and other crafty endevours. He’s using this machine to create solder paste stencils that are better than any laser cut stencil he’s used before.
Like a build we’ve seen before, Ben is using a desktop-sized vinyl cutter, the Sihouette Portrait, with 4 mil Mylar. After converting the relevent layers of a Gerber file into .SVG files, Ben loaded up Robocut to cut very, very small holes in his solder stencil. The results are great; much better than a laser would cut Mylar, and good enough to apply paste to a few hundred boards at least.
While Ben is using his stencils to apply solder paste, we’re wondering if a similar process could be used to apply a UV-curing solder mask to home-fabbed boards. That would allow for some very professional-looking boards to be produced with a turnaround time of just a few hours.
Bob
2017/2/20 1:59:01
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paolo.costanzi
2017/2/20 1:59:01
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