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A project log for R.A.V.E.N. -- A Transistorised Brainfuck Computer

[R]eduction to [A]lgorithms of [V]ersatile [E]soteric m[N]eumonics

blair-vidakovichBlair Vidakovich 08/02/2018 at 08:490 Comments

I do not have the budget to fabricate fibreglass PCBs, so I must either hand solder veroboard or perfboard.

Veroboard and perboard is very expensive at good qualities, and cheap board is of terrible quality and structural integrity.


So, to keep costs down, I turned to re-using waste.

I am going to use acrylic board (PMMA acrylic) I obtained from the Sydney Marrickville Reverse Garbage centre. It was very cheap, at $18 for approximately 3 metres squared.

Drilling holes in the plastic will be time consuming, so I will superglue surface mount components to it, and hand solder them once they are attached.

SMD construction will be more time efficient and will reduce the size of the computer.

I believe that the plastic can be cut or snapped into ''flip chips''.

I am open to fabricating ''flip chips'' for others on a not for profit basis.

The next step is building the power supply and ordering the components.

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