[JohnnyVegas]

I am building from scratch all electrical for my build. I should have been completed with the first Picstep board by now but Digikey forgot to ship my resonators and I'm waiting till the replacements arrive sometime in the next 4 days.

Here is my progress so far:

I started by laser transfer and did a custom mix for the etching solution. It turned out pretty nice as you can see from the pictures. I won't go into too much detail here as you can find many videos on the transfer process.


Next, I drilled all the holes using a nice dermal drill pack I found (LINK). I think I paid about $10 for the 7 pak. I used the two smallest bits for the component holes and the largest for the screw downs in the corners. They are the smallest I could find at my local home centers. It turns out these are EXACTLY the perfect size.

I placed the bits in the my press and drilled away:


Came out nice. I looked over the board with a glass to ensure there was nothing 'fishy' with any traces.


Once all the holes were done I cleaned the board and prepared for the next step. My custom screening graphic.

(Continues...)