Drilling

I drilled pretty much every hole in my aluminum chassis plate last night and started screwing down circuit boards. In honor of the the occasion I named my maze robot "Standoff City" because he is going to use up every standoff I own. I need to find cheaper way to make circuit modules. I am thinking that the three-hole pattern perfboards might be the way to go. With the three hole pattern it seems like you could T-Tap connections without gobing the solder together. I just want an easy-to-construct mechanism that builds permanent, low-profile (e.g. not wire-wrap (bletch)) circuits for not a lot of money. Chemical etching is kinda nasty and you have to drill for components I usually use. I am not all that swift at drilling. If I could master SMT soldering then maybe all I would have to drill are the vias. Tom G. offered to keep etching equipment at the BDO room. So maybe that is the way to go. I'll still at least try the three-hole thing though, as it suits my incremental circuit building leanings.