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Updated ^. A question for anybody who might know... I'll be attempting to transform the top of the Fat PS2 lid into a make-shift circuit board. I've been mulling over ideas on how I want to connect the components to the Male ATA cable. Idealistically I would like to design a PCB and have it made, however, I'm already over budget with this project I don't have the time for that. So my question... If I were to melt lines of solder into the lid, would they work as traces? If so, could they handle 7-9v (fairly low amperage)? Would they mess up any of the signals being sent from the Female ATA cable (see work log rev 1.6)? If I can't do something like this with the resources I have, I will likely just directly connect the Male ATA cable to the components (will get ugly).
]why not make your own PCB's? i have made a couple of my own designs on ExpressPCB and then etched them out myself with ferric chloride copper plates and some transfer paper( some magazine paper with laser toner on it also works).. I've seen people use this method on glass too, to make glass panel with the traces etched onto it, just some ideas.if you want I can go find out a bit more about this, the stuff i used cost me about 15$