Etching a fuzz face

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Etching a fuzz face

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I'm gonna head down to our Makerspace and test-etch this design that we whipped up in Diptrace yesterday:
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Yep, it's a silicon (neg ground) fuzz face. Because it is in diptrace you're looking at all the layers at once "through" the board to the bottom, and for some reason teh bottom is overlapping the top screen print. Basically the same layout as the AMZ YAFF, but we're going to bring out the wires to that top edge and solder a female pin-socket all the way across, then wires to the knobs, input/output jacks, switch etc get plugged in. Trying to decide if we just want the basic rectangles and values in Green or the diptrace component outlines that you see in dark blue. The silkscreen layer ( the labels ) won't be in this test etch so it doesn't matter.. we don't screen print PCBs at the Makerspace. Yet. :cool:

Why make another fuzz face PCB? We're planning to have a class on building Fuzzfaces at our Makerspace in a few months, and we wanted to do our own board. If this test-etch works out, we'll finish up the silkscreen layer send the design off to be made in bulk (Can do runs of 10 boards or 100 boards, so we'll be starting with 10 and probably limit the class to 10 people at the most.) Should be awesome :thumb:

For the curious, this is what it looked like when we just copied the AMZ YAFF layout:
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