I am finally getting to the solder melting stage of my Minima construction project. Attached are photos of the Arduino controller board that I fabricated using the toner transfer method. After etching the board, I tinned all of the copper surfaces by hand using liquid flux and solder. Note that my board is actually more than 98 mm long. I just didn't feel that it was worth my time to trim off the few millimeters of excess board stock. I usually don't mess with component labeling on my own homebrew PCB projects, but I thought that it would be worthwhile in this case. The labeling is offset a little because I wanted to make sure that the header labeling got placed on the board. I plan on maintaining a build log, as I proceed through the construction and testing of the Minima. Hopefully, it will be useful to others. 73, Mac AE5PH
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