After last night's meeting, I wandered around our space to document the build-out and the building. Lease will start on July 1st!
Author: Christopher
Micro Colonel of LVL1
Robots & Dinosaurs – Sydney, AU Hackerspace
Experimenting with DIY PCB dyeing
This past weekend I experimented with dyeing some etched PCBs. I used Rit dye easily found in grocery stores. It was quick and dirty. I just boiled some water, mixed in a heavy concentration of black dye and let it sit for a couple of hours.
The dye worked well enough. Rather than just soaking in a cooling dye, I should have been applying a constant heat and agitating the solution in order to get a darker saturation. And when removing flux after soldering the board, dye came off as well. But in general this is a promising way to make nicer looking DIY PCB boards in the future.
Meeting Tonight 5/25 @ Heine Bros
We'll be meeting tonight at Heine Bros in St. Matthews as usual. Lease details are being worked out for our new space on Broadway. We'll be planning details for our move in to the space. We'll also have a report from those who visited Maker Faire this past weekend.
As always; makers, hackers and curious bystanders are welcome to come check us out.