[Robotgroup] Printing PCBs

[Clendon Gibson]

Hi Vern,

Your point is taken.

My interest in this particular route was involvement with the group. Eric's alternative is certainly a better solution from a price/quality standpoint, but there is no group involvement. While my e-mail sounded defensive or even petty, I do wish to try to do something with group involvement. It isn't the easiest thing in the world for me to come to the meetings, and I was excited about this being a chance to contribute.

I hope also that you will agree that having a way to make custom boards locally is useful. If I pursue this, I will compare notes with Paul. Thank you for that pointer.

I'm sorry you felt the need to write. 

----- Original Message ----
From: Vern Graner <vern at txis.com>
To: The Robot Group Mailing List <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:50:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Printing PCBs

Clendon Gibson wrote:
 > Let me try this again. I can never compete with a mass
 > produced thing. I have no intention of doing so. I'm no
 > business man <snip>

Clendon:

There's really no reason to be defensive of your proposition, it wasn't 
being attacked. Eric was trying to be helpful. I don't want people to be 
afraid to suggest alternative methods to accomplish our goals.

If the point of the exercise is to end up with a working speed 
controller, then Eric's contribution was relevant, on-topic and useful. 
Not a better/worse route than the one you offered, just an alternative. 
Multiple paths to the same goal is a good thing. :)

If the point of the exercise was to learn how to etch PC boards, Paul 
has etched PC boards for a number of projects and has had very good luck 
doing so. Here's an example of one of the larger projects he did for me:

http://www.notepad.org/hauntlite/images/img_0580.jpg

Maybe Paul could help you (and anyone else that would like to 
participate) get started with role-your-own PCBs? :)

Vern

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