How to make PCB at home

PCB plays a vital role for making of Electronic chips, this is very useful to reduce the complexity while connecting the components. So now its time to go for making a PCB (Printed-Circuit Board) at your home by using very less equipment.

         Lets see the equipment required for making PCB at home.

             1. Copper Clad

             2. Ferric Chloride Anhydrous (FeCl3)

             3. Glossy or Photo paper

             4. PCB Cutter

             5. Dry Iron

             6. Hand Drill

             7. Scrubber

Step 1:-

          Clean the Copper Clad using scrubber.

Step 2:-

          Design circuit using some software's such as 'Eagle', 'Proteus' and so on, then print the circuit on glossy paper and it is also called photo paper. Here we use photo paper of 210 gsm (Gram per Square Meter).

Step 3:-

          Take the printed photo paper and placed on the copper clad and then iron it by using Dry-Iron then only the circuit tracks will print on copper clad. Do the ironing for 3 minutes.

Step 4:-

          Now clean the copper clad with some water to removed the photo paper.

Step 5:-

          Prepare FeCl3 solution for removing the unnecessary copper on the clad. For this solution we need FeCl3 power and water. Add a few FeCl3 powder and pour some water to get solution. Now put the copper clad in this solution and spread the solution over the clad.

Step 5:- 

          After complete this process take the PCB and clean with scrubber(if necessary). Then see the PCB their is tracks on it, this process is called 'Etching'

Step 6:-

          Now put the hole using Hand-drill where the components is placed on PCB.

Step 7:-

          After placing all components as per your circuit design and soldering it then check whether the circuit is closed or not. This is how to making a PCB at home.

If your not understand clearly then see the below video, it this video you can clearly understand the step-by-step procedure of making PCB at home.