Etching a pcb for a display

Together with Martin and Thijs we've tried to etch a PCB using the toner transfer method. Yesterday we tried but had no luck. Somehow you cannot use a Brother printer for the toner transfer method. Luckily, after trying lots of different things, I found a post where someone said the Brother printers make the toner and so the plastic too hot which makes it very hard to transfer the ink to the pcb. Martin had a Samsung laser printer which we used today, and it just worked directly!

We created a design to drive a shiftregister. The PCB is okay, though not the best ever quality, but for a first time we're really happy. Next step is to solder it nicely and make it work to drive our 7-segmented LEDs.

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