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Desktop Circuit Board Printer

BarackOBatman
By BarackOBatman
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This thing looks pretty awesome.

You can create your own double sided (2 layer only) PCBs using  pre made "blank" FR-4 sheets. It even does fairly small width traces (8 mils)

 

https://www.voltera.io/

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Eh, doublesided, or even single sided, this is cool, especially for somebody like me that wants to get into circuit board stuff.

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that thing is so unbelievably over priced for what it is. I would just det any boards you need made by osh park, it is going to be cheaper per board 90% of the time, you can get 4 layer pcb's made, and they ship very fast. This thing should not exist, Conductive ink?!?! really? Kind of useless if you have to re-design your board to prototype on this machine. I could see $1000-$1500, but $4200 is just nuts.

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1 minute ago, bob345 said:

that thing is so unbelievably over priced for what it is. I would just det any boards you need made by osh park, it is going to be cheaper per board 90% of the time, you can get 4 layer pcb's made, and they ship very fast. This thing should not exist, Conductive ink?!?! really? Kind of useless if you have to re-design your board to prototype on this machine. I could see $1000-$1500, but $4200 is just nuts.

It's like the $3000 4k 144Hz monitor from Asus, it's overpriced because it's one of the first.

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8 minutes ago, bob345 said:

that thing is so unbelievably over priced for what it is. I would just det any boards you need made by osh park, it is going to be cheaper per board 90% of the time, you can get 4 layer pcb's made, and they ship very fast. This thing should not exist, Conductive ink?!?! really? Kind of useless if you have to re-design your board to prototype on this machine. I could see $1000-$1500, but $4200 is just nuts.

I just thought the concept was really cool tbh. Who knows, future models may be superior and more affordable!

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Just now, ZcanKal said:

It's like the $3000 4k 144Hz monitor from Asus, it's overpriced because it's one of the first.

But its not even close to the first, people have been making their own pcb's with copper plated fr4 that will have a proper sheet rho and dielectric constant on $300 3 axis machines for the better part of a decade. There is even diy solder mask available for this stuff.

 

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this thing has no place in this world outside of prototyping companies maybe.

 

PCB´s are so ultra cheap to order that this thing is simply not worth it, if you need a pCB fast your just etch one yourself or solder a prototype manually.

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