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Building a mobo from scratch?

no didn't have any training i suppose you could say i'm self taught although not a genious (ha wish i was:laugh:) the hardest part of that board was marking the pcb with a thick etch resistant pen, although it is easy to rub the marks of if you make mistakes.
there are alsorts of small projects to build out there usually from electronics stores

PCB etching on mainboards are also the with the simple process bro:), they still print it on a photo stencil and dip it on acid, the same with the simple PCB etching technique, only thing is its accelerated more precised and fast process cause its all automated:rockout: I bet even the manufacturers cannot do it without their automated machineries:laugh: good for us we know the basics on it:laugh: operating machineries is a simple task IMO, designing it manually is a big challenge:laugh:
 
when I was a kid (back in the 60's)I remember getting a simple version of one of these for Xmas...
http://www.homeschoolingsupply.com/elenco-electronics/science-kits-mx-909.htm

I am sorry I never took it serious and continued. The new versions have computer circuits on them

yeah man, I got one of those too a few years back...when I was a kid lol in the 2000's

but I loved it, but it was much simpler then that one and I was like 12 so I wasnt AS interested in this stuff...I want to find it now dust it off and play with it :)
 
no didn't have any training i suppose you could say i'm self taught although not a genious (ha wish i was:laugh:) the hardest part of that board was marking the pcb with a thick etch resistant pen, although it is easy to rub the marks of if you make mistakes.
there are alsorts of small projects to build out there usually from electronics stores

I bet you if you adapt the manufacturer`s technique and plot it on the auto routing and photo stencil they use, you can finish it in 10 minutes:laugh: I also made PCB`s before but the hard way:( masking tape then draw the lines, then cut the undesired tape paths then dip it in the ferric chloride for 5 minutes then drill each and every holes to put the components:laugh:
 
Hey I know this is prolly crazy but if you had the proper know-how about circut boards would this be possible? And if it is has it been done? Because if it is I can see many advantages.

Electronics Workbench? But then, the "tools" needed to get everything on will be rather expensive. A solder iron will do until you reach a circuit that needs to be soldered on the mainboard directly.

Can't remember the company name at the moment (can look it up) but they sold something that almost looked as it "stitched" the legs of say a northbridge onto a motherboard..
 
While you are at it why not built CPU and VGA to :D
 
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