Stephen Hawes

Custom PCBs with vias are easy, if the vias are already there!

As a way of keeping everyone more in the loop with what we're working on, we're going to be releasing monthly status updates! The first one for March 2025 is live on our blog, with the video version on your YouTube. Check out the post here: www.opulo.io/blogs/news/m...

silkscreen is now in play. etched the blue layer where text should go, squeegeed white into the voids, wiped clean, then etched the normal soldermask layer

lots of tests today with drilling and cutting with the fiber laser, resulted in a fully operational board!

single sided PCB, fully fabricated on my bench in under an hour using a fiber laser. i’m STOKED.

crazy results making pcbs on the fiber laser so far. playing with soldermask now!

managed to make a working PCB on an SLA 3D printer! full vid on yt now: youtu.be/lX7dRaOLtZk

just got my hands on a fiber laser! with some tuning i think this thing could be an incredible tool for quickly prototyping pcbs.

after spending the weekend working on a multi-container docker project, it’s clear that containers both 1) GREATLY simplify things, and 2) GREATLY complicate things, in very different ways.

over the weekend i built a little @freecadnews.bsky.social plugin that renders a rotating build timelapse! going to be using this for a ton of videos now

excited to add one more to the queue 😤