{"id":2148,"date":"2019-05-12T23:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:37:45","slug":"some-toner-transfer-pcb-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"Some Toner-Transfer PCB Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some recent highlights from my home-made circuit boards using the toner-transfer method.<\/p>\n

0.5 mm FPC breakout board<\/h2>\n

Yes, I have been told that I am crazy before… Designed in KiCAD<\/p>\n

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0.5 mm pitch FPC breakout board – before etching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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0.5 mm pitch FPC breakout board – half-way etched<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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0.5 mm pitch FPC breakout board – almost done<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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0.5 mm pitch FPC breakout board – soldered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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TQFP32 controller board (student project)<\/h2>\n

This one is actually not my design and it was drawn in Altium.<\/p>\n

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TQFP32 controller board – before etching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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TQFP32 controller board – during etching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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TQFP32 controller board – after etching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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433 MHz wireless sensor node<\/h2>\n

…another recent student project. Designed in KiCAD.<\/p>\n

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433 MHz wireless sensor node with Arduino nano – peeling off the paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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433 MHz wireless sensor node with Arduino nano – before etching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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433 MHz wireless sensor node with Arduino nano – during etching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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433 MHz wireless sensor node with Arduino nano – after etching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Soldering exercise for the MakerSpace<\/h2>\n

Designed in KiCAD.<\/p>\n

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SMD multivibrator with two blinking LEDs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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IR remote control<\/h2>\n

Designed in KiCAD<\/p>\n

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Final assembly in the 3D-printed casing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Front side of the finished circuit board with all 32 smd push-buttons in place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The etched, drilled and tinned circuit board.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some recent highlights from my home-made circuit boards using the toner-transfer method. 0.5 mm FPC breakout board Yes, I have been told that I am crazy before… Designed in KiCAD   TQFP32 controller board (student project) This one is actually not my design and it was drawn in Altium.   433 MHz wireless sensor node […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronics_en","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMGP7429_850.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48grL-yE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}