Electronics Trivia No. 151- Pad/Island Cutter/Maker, Manhattan Construction, Cheap n' Quick PCB

Wonderful tutorial on building. Would love to see more on your techniques and the tools and materials used to build the circuits/ etc. Being a ham op, WS0D, I'd appreciate ref related pro Jett's. Again, thanks very much. Dve

Excellent! Thank you so much!

Just heard this on the Minima project from a yahoo group on BITX20 transceiver: "The Mimima was an experimental transceiver, very different from the bitx. It is an excellent receiver but the transmitter faced a fairly strong local oscillator presence in the output. we were unable to resolve it and it remains an unfinished transceiver.
i had stopped circulation of the pcbs as it was not compliant with the spurious emission requirements of the FCC.

- f" This is from the engineer, Ashhar Farhan farhanbox@gmail.com [BITX20] <BITX20@yahoogroups.com>, so the question I just posted is no longer needing an answer. Thanks. - gwn

Steve, both pad and drilled island methods you demonstrated in this video were helpful. I try and rely on experienced opinions as much as possible, because I make enough mistakes on my own as it is. Would you use either of the two methods you've demo'ed here for the Minima radio schematic in the link at the end of this paragraph, or would you go to a board house? Looks like 9 or 10 modules to me on Farhan's Minima schematic, and though it says "We recommend building the separate modules of Minima on small copper clad boards and interconnecting them through shielded cables." looks like cable connection of 9 or 10 boards could be tricky to me. If each end of the cable has two connections, that's an additional 18 or 20 connection points that could be faulty, as, again, I count 9 or 10 modules on the schematic and on his picture showing the copper clad boards: http://www.phonestack.com/farhan/minima.html

good old quick and simple methods of having fun with electronics. Thanks for reminding me how life could be
simpler and we sometime make it so complicated

Great for hf rf circuits

thanks i always follow your helpful videos

Love your channel. I've got lots of project ideas, and I've got a few parts coming to try a couple as well!

I am looking at building ~60 circuit boards for a product. In your opinion, is it worthwhile persuing this island method, or should i stick with perfboard?

Very informative, and great idea. got to check out pad cutters. lot faster than etching.

Just found this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-x-Diamond-Coated-Drill-Bit-Set-6mm-Dia-Hole-Saw-Glass-Granite-Cutter-Tip-/201503374087?hash=item2eea897b07:g:c48AAOSwgQ9Vyyjf
What do you think? Maybe a good buy?

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Very, very interesting and superb tutorial Steve, thank you very much! Now I think I will try to build a simple guitar fuzzbox using this method. And if I could get some old components to use, it could end up something really neat!

Good video, informed and low key, perfect.

Nice work Steve.