Laser cut & engraved PCB made on a Laser cutter. 

That has to be the best quality homemade PCB I've ever seen, and very quick for holes and everything.

I had NO idea this was even an option. My 90w laser should be able to do as well as this. Thank you for sharing the whole process. I will TOTALLY be trying this.

This is amazing! Very good job. Thanks for sharing. You initiated a new age in the home made pcb!

Thanks for demonsting that technique, Iike it a lot more than the other CNC options I've seen.

That has to be the best quality homemade PCB I've ever seen, and very quick for holes and everything (2)

It's all about the process. You produced a great looking product. Nice job with the video and thank you for sharing. Cheers!

The rain hitting your workshop makes me jealous. Both the fact you have a workshop and the nice relaxing white noise it makes.

Many thanks for making this video. It popped up in my feed at random and I watched it out of curiosity. It has just taken me three days to find it again as I want to give this a try. I’ll be saving the video this time…

I wonder if a 10W diode laser will be good enough for repeating this (slow is fine) at home over a desktop cnc router. But without doubt this is the best method I have come across to get home made professional grade PCBs. Getting the alignment is gonna be the key, and I think that's where most of the efforts are gonna be. Many thanks for sharing this with the internet!

Greatest Homemade PCB. LOVE THIS.

Beautifully done. 👌🤌

Wow that end result looks legit!

Very creative use of the laser- hats off!

Very impressive results! Thank you for sharing. Would love to try your method out!

That is so damn cool, im genuinly impressed with how you made this

Look's AWESOME Thanks for sharing your skills, I'm about to embark on my first try, so THANKS again for your great advise...

Superbe vidéo, ça donne envie, joli travail, félicitations ! 👍👍👍

handy video, so excited to try it with my 80W Laser

Beautiful job!

Great set of processes ! Wasn't aware paxolin would cut with the laser (I have a 40W Universal) - liked the alignment pins idea too.

You are superb !! Awesome work 👌 thanks for sharing

This is the best thing i've seen this entire year!! Thank you so much for this.... I just bought my first laser machine.. 20W Diode laser, but i'll work myself to getting this type...

Nice demonstration, thanks!

this video is very instructional and clear, and also funny and natural, Great work, i learn a lot from here, as i have doubt whether to get laser machine or cnc machine

Excellent ! Thanks for sharing

Smartest Guy .... You Rock .... God Bless You ....

Awesome!Thank you for sharing.Gotta make one with Cnc!

the final result is quite stunning

Awesome video, nice PCB

Very nice. Thankyou for sharing.

Absolutely beautiful I have to try this

Pretty impressive, very good job! Versatile is Universal Laser System.

Amazing... nice job.. thanks

Excellent video and great looking PCB. I’ve a 40W CO2 laser and often thought about making pcb’s with it but now I know it works I’ll give it a go. I also use Arduino Nano’s in many of my projects so thanks for the inspiration to give it a try.

OMG that is an amazing workflow!!! I have laser too but did it completely wrong i see now

Nice work I love it

really clean output

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Was watching this again. I can see a rotating vacuum chuck in the future of your spray booth.

Very impressive.

Great video! In a couple of years I will be an electrician and I will be hopefully making boards like yours for fun!

This looks like one of the easiest methods for diy PCBs! Don’t have a lazer cutter though

Great Job

been seeing a lot more laser cut pcbs lately... must be something trending... This is an amazing job. I might not have to go to JLCPCB all the time any more :p

Thanks thanks Very good Thanks One thousand times thanks

its amazing !!!

Very perfect

NICELY DONE. I am a professional PCB designer with 40 years experience. I would have used Photo Resist and LPI Solder Mask. White paint very creative. I also just started setting up a Laser Engraving system.

ahhhh... so the trick is to flip them over, copper side down... I knew there had to be a way to do this and there was some trick I just hadn't thought of. Thanks!

wonderfull made it ........

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing and by the sound of your accent brilliant Aussie engineering. 👍 I’m a retired electronic engineer having designed, developed and manufactured TV broadcast equipment for 15 years as my last hooray before retiring. So I appreciate your ingenuity and skills. I have used KiCad a number of times in retirement to design PCB for a number of projects and for grandkids some of whom are taking an interest in electronics. I don’t have a laser unit nor the space to locate one so I have used the Chinese PCB manufacturers to fabricate my boards. Frankly I do not know how they can do what they do for the price! Nice to see something being made in Australia (Assuming I have the accent right and your living here in Oz?) Well done again it was fascinating watching your enviable skills....

Wow a very impressive result, I just subscribed and waiting for the configuration of the software TO achieve such a neat PCB.

This is exactly what I'm looking for. I made some PCB by etching but never with laser engraver. The final outcome blow my mind.

that's incredible

Very good quality, never see a homem made pcb with all that quality. Thanks for share with us, o have a 80w co2 laser and will try this process.

Good work

amazing man!

Perfect 👏

That's a great method

Looks like I didnt leave a comment. Def the best on RU-vid. Great Work. Cheers

Nice video, keep it up, thank you :)

I know not everybody has such laser engraver but you can do the same with a 200$ one. This is a perfect video example how you can make a PCB at home with a laser engraver. I liked the custom spray paint at the end green and clear coat.

Fantastico 🇮🇹😀👍

The laser cuts holes surprisingly well, at least for a single-sided board. Less so for a 2-sided board. I’d suggests to ditch the arduino and go for a soldered-on ATmega/tiny MCU. The old mega16/32s and tiny84 series are the old go-to, but I’ve swapped to the tiny1614 series and will be trying the mega4808 series in my own motor driver soon. Sure you’d need a programmer board (which you can also make yourself) but the result is going to be a lot smaller and cheaper. Plus you could arguably get rid of a need for holes altogether. Your setup definitely has a lot of precision yet!

This is great. I love the idea that you have used just one hightech tool to do everything. I lets the person starting out invest wisely on a very flexible machine that can do a lot of things AND make PCBs as well that are very presentable. I love your idea of the translucent spray lacquer. I will have to find out if such a custom spray can service exists in Finland, if Not I suppose I could use my vintage JennyCan to hold some paint. A mill can do much but the solder mask and legends will need some other techniques if all you have is a mill.

Hello! It was very perfect! Congratulations on the type of paint spray you used? You would help him a lot! Thanks Alexander

I love the video

Very smart

A great video , thank you for the insight. I found that I used the same type of paint and did exactly what you did but I am finding 2 things. I even tried 4 passes as low power but could not get to the copper colour, still shows a white very feint film , 2 the edges of the tracks looking using my phone on zoom looks like it is bubbled. I have tried the lower the power as much as possible with the same result. I have a 100 W C02. Your engraving looks so perfect. Thank you

WOW incredibly good! VERY impressive home-made PCB! I always thought Laser cutters could only be used for wood and styrofoam. BRILLIANT VIDEO! Thank you! Probably takes a LOT of skill and learning to get it working THAT WELL! Did you invent it for yourself or get it from a book or so?

Шикарно!

THANKS for your vid! I am starting a large hobby project which requires a fair amount of PCB's. I was going to send them out for FAB, but that makes onesy prototypes nearly impossible[cost]. Here's my catch. I gotta have double-sided, with plated through holes. Can you offer thoughts on that? Thanks

I like it and i need it thanks

Thank you so much for sharing, it's some great techniques, and much faster than drilling all the holes out by hand! Haha.. *sigh*

Brilliant. Have you tried it for SMD, and soldered on a hotplate or oven?

There are vids of ppl using lasers to precipate/electroplate copper from solutions. I wonder if this could allow to make vias - basically shine laser into the holes so copper would plate there. There are many ways to make decent PCB 's at home, but making vias is still very challenging.

perfectly, make speechless

How much is the laser power used when it was revealing the pads almost at the end of the video?

The best.

Great Work! Thank you for sharing. Seems to me like lasers are a better option than CNC milling these days if you want a more professional looking board.

What's the minimum laser wattage do you need to cut the plate? and does it have to be a CO2 laser?

Would this work with the K40 as well or is the laser too weak?

thank you! but what file type did u used?

I'm so grateful for this, I hate relying on external services for stuff and now I can whip these up at home! Do you have a buy-me-a-coffee or something?

Hi, thanks for the video. Did u use acrylic paint ir you never paid attention to that? TIA!

بسیار عالی 👌👌

Hello....Can you explain in detail how the layers work in Corel Draw?

Great video,I have been trying this method on my 40W laser but for some reason, when I try to engrave the paint it still leaves a residue, I don't get a clean copper finish, I've tried several settings from a light engrave 50mm at 5mA to 10mm at 10mA. even tried slightly defocused. it looks like every other line is unengraved paint. do you have any suggestions?

Are the phenolic boards you cut bakelite? Wondering as that seems to be what I can find, but had heard bakelite doesn't cut well with co2 laser.

Lazer de 5w da pra fazer plaquinha retira tinta

wow didn't know you can cant the holes with laser only !

Damn dude, they came out absolutely beautifully! How far do you think I'd get trying this with a 3W laser etcher? 😅

Very nice result. It would be nice to get away from any chemical baths, I think that should be a real benifit of using laser. I wonder if you can reduce the steps if you use soldermask tape (no paint required) directly onto the pcb and cut away the copper (and the soldermask on the pads) you don't need. Is this an option or just a stupid idea?

i like your spray booth were can i buy one

Great video. I love what you have come up with. Could you explain the lacquer mix you use for solder max and how you got it in a spray can? Thank you.

Great idea! Could you answer one dumb question, is it possible to make a 2-sided pcb with this method?

It's were great

How much power you user when the laser makes the etching mask and the solder pads? On how many wats is the laser set up?

Super!! liked the idea. What would be the approximate cost of printing a 4X6 inch PCB?

Cool stuff! I don't see why it wouldn't work on my 5.5mw diode laser either... Just slower and more passes. So long as I can cut thru to the copper, the chemicals can make the rest of the hole... Awesome!