I never build my own PCB ever in my life.
I always thought that building PCB is difficult. It is simply by the reason that building PCB in the old ways is troublesome. It all started by preparing the board and start making the traces on the paper screen, then located and drawing the components size manually. After its done, the layout screen is print to the PCB by using an iron, which often the printing not fully attach to the PCB and need correction manually. The pain is not stopping yet; you need to soak the PCB with the printing screen on it to the acid (that I also don't know what kind of acid is). The acid function is to peel out the copper on the PCB that not yet covered by the printed screen.
Is it done? Not yet! After it soaked and cleaned, I also need to drill many holes, clean it again with fine sand paper. The trouble is not over yet. The PCB finished is always looking cheap and unprofessional. Later on, the copper traces are easy oxidize because directly exposed to the air, effect to the electronic overall.
That is why in this post, I will share my experienced when building my first PCB on pcbway.com