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| - | **== Paper-PCBs or Paperboards =============================** | + | ===== Paper PCBs, an Introduction ===== |
| - | For all kind of media installation based on controller and electronic you require printed circuit boards. To get one someone have to manufacture them. Cause of the industrial standards, that is really complicated, it needs some days or weeks and it is expensive, too. Another possibility is to develop them by yourself and that means you end up with a lot of dangerous chemicals and have to drill hundreds of holes. | + | For all kind of media installation based on controller and electronics one requires printed circuit boards (PCB's). It can be quite a task to get the perfect one that matches your needs. Due to industrial standards it takes some time and money to get them manufactured. Another option is to create them by yourself, but most likely you'll end up with a lot of dangerous chemicals and find yourself drilling hundreds of holes. |
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| - | Paperboards or Paper PCBs are a smart way to prevent all that. It is an open hardware system that helps you to create easily PCBs. You can design and modify them on your computer with a drawing program like Gimp or Photoshop. And after printing you just stick the printed circuit on a standard protoboard (available at every electronic shop) and voila you have a proper and solid printed PCB. The system allows you to have an individual, colourful design, too. | + | Paperboards or Paper PCBs are a smart way to avoid the trouble. Paper PCBs is the fastest and the most flexible rapid prototyping system developed by [[http://wolfgang-spahn.de/doku.php|Wolfgang Spahn]] since 2008. It is an open hardware system that allows you to create PCB's easily. You simply need a drawing program like Gimp, Inkscape or Photoshop to design or modify them on your computer (Fritzing will also do). Just print it and stick the printed circuit on a standard protoboard (available at every electronic shop) and voilà - there is your proper PCB. The system allows you to get an individual colorful design, too. |
| - | It is a perfect extension to the Arduino system and at the same time it is so powerful that you can create your own Paperduino with it. Because it also is a modular system you can combine different Paperboards to build real complex machines. | + | {{ :about:paperboards_wspahn.jpg?nolink&500 |}} |
| - | [[how_to|how to]] | + | One can use Paper PCB's as a perfect extension to the Arduino system. Furthermore you can also use them to create your own Paperduino. Paper-PCB's provide a modular system that allows you to combine different Paperboards to create real complex machines. |
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| + | Here is a [[manual|Manual]] for building your own Paper-PCB. | ||
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