And there it is

[johnridley]

I haven't put together all the patterns for it yet, I have some ideas. The area around the chip is wretched because of the home-etched double-sided board; there's no feed-through so I had to disassemble an IC socket and solder the pins from both sides, which is really pretty difficult. I should buy some wire-wrap sockets to facilitate soldering on both sides. Either that or do all the chip stuff on the bottom and go to the other side with vias.

Comments

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

If you must do double sided, just shove a resistor lead through and solder from both sides and clip. There's always a pile of 1" long leads laying about. They're also good to use for top traces when using single clad board.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Well, my problem is that I have leads that connect to the chip on the top layer. Not a problem for a proper board with plate-throughs, but it's a pain in the ass for a hand-etched board.

I don't actually have any vias that aren't on components.