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A true single-sided circuit board. (evilmadscientist.com)
75 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Nov 22, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



In the mid-90's I worked for a company that tried conductive ink to create two-sided routings on single-sided CEM-1 circuit boards (cheap). They were trying to save money. Guess what? They didn't. It turns out that recalls and scrap are expensive.


I loved the comment that drilling some vias would create circuit wormholes.


This looks kind of cool, but is there a practical aplication for this o is it js a joke?


Evil Mad Scientist does a lot of things just because they are cool :) Example: fractal cookies! http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/fractalcookies


They sell to geeks, and this is good PR. Quite straight forward actually.


It's fun! Fun doesnt need a practical application.


With some circuits, you need to worry about current leak from one side of the board to the other. This eliminates that possibility.


That wouldn't work - the board still has two sides locally, it just has one side globally. So there could still be current leakage between the two (local) sides.


Sorry, joke.




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