While low-cost professional PCB fabrication has largely supplanted making circuit boards at home, there’s still something to be said for being able to go from design to prototype in an afternoon.

In this technique, fluorine-based plasma chemistry is used for silicon etching, which is combined with a fluorocarbon plasma process to offer sidewall passivation and enhanced selectivity to masking ...

There may be nothing new under the sun when it comes to etching PCBs with UV light, but [Heliosoph] has brought finer control to a used face tanner he bought that now exposes his boards in ~50 seconds ...