fredbloggstwo wrote:
Hi Tony

there is quite a good article here about making the parts for short
production runs of PCBs

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/pcbs.html

You can also get the required parts and chemicals from he

http://www.megauk.com/

With regards to the software, there are several low-cost packages you
can buy. If you are local to Maplins (I assume that you are in the
UK and not in the colonies as one of this newsgroup's contributors
is) there is a neat little software package called PCB Wizard which
costs around £30 or so and does most functions and has some
libraries, auto routing etc.
So it might cost you about £100 of so to set it up, assuming that you
have a good quality printer, but its also good fun and you will never
use Veroboard again :-)

Cheers

Mike

Thanks Mike,

Closest Maplins is in Shrewsbury, about an hour away, but Maplins online
delivery service is pretty good.

I've been looking at the open source package http://www.freepcb.com/ but it
seems too advanced for my needs. It would take me longer to enter a netlist
and learn how to use this app than simply drawing a layout in a paint
program. Maybe PCB Wizard is more user friendly. Just drag/drop from a
component pallet then drag tracks around to connect stuff. That would be
plenty for me.

Thanks for the links, great article !