21 Feb
2006
21 Feb
'06
5:32 p.m.
Brad Parker wrote:
"Curt @ Atari Museum" wrote:
Well if you really are stuck, try here. Too bad the USA has no real do
it your self stuff any more.
http://www.rcsradio.com.au/
Anyone know of any PCB firms that still do PCB
production based on
original Film art? I have most of the films for what was and wasn't
produced by Atari, there are no digital files (heck some of these very
early films, like the original Pong console are done with adhesive tape
onto a clear plastic film for crying out loud!) So I am looking for a
place that can still work with this old style way of making PCB's, anyone?
I doubt you'll find anyone because they all "palletize" using gerber
files. But I might be wrong.
I wonder if you could not scan the film and then (waves arms and thinks
of AI, chicken feathers and blind luck) somehow extract a gerber out of
it.
Actually, spending a minute in google, it seems that this is a common
service done my cad conversion houses.
Seems like feature extraction in such a limited domain might actually be
pretty good - i.e. you could do it mostly in software.
-brad