Printem PCB

[Bud]

For you my fellow revolutioners and technology disruptors. Another PCB making product which ( of course) going to revolutionize the industry.

http://www.hightechdad.com/2016/05/23/print-a-circuit-board-using-your-home-printer-its-coming-with-printem/

[ebclr]

Really interesting,  Let's seee where will be the price

[sleemanj]

Interesting, seems to be essentially copper on a transparent backing with UV cured adhesive between them.  Print negative on the transparent side, expose to cure the adhesive bonding copper to backing, and peel away.  The copper must be VERY thin I think to peel away like that, gold leaf sort of thickness.

[ataradov]

With this kind of quality? It will do absolutely nothing to PCB market.

It is getting hard to make things work in 2 layers, so 4 layer boards are required more and more. I don't see much use for this single layer technology even for hobbyists.

[ebclr]

Spacex is planing to use this on mission critical circuits. .......

It's really nice, and can help a lot, and several uses

[wraper]

Copper foil seem to be super thin. Therefore too high resistance and too low durability for real circuits.

[Bud]

Did the video show at 2:14 a BK meter measuring 1.2 Ohm between the probes placed at 1" distance on a copper track, while the narrator saying "printem makes highly conductive PCBs" ? Does not look highly conductive to me...

[mikeselectricstuff]

Single layer only - waste of time.