I understand that they are printed but why only flat? Is there no way to give it a 90 degree angle.
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Sure… but why?
If you had a printed PCB like an angle bracket, that would put stress on the corner making it more likely to fail than the rest of the board. If you needed to fit the electronics into an angle-bracket-like space, you could simply print two circuit boards, connect them with a ribbon cable and place them at the same angle.
An angle bracket PCB also couldn’t be placed in pick-and-place machines to populate it and would be a nuisance to populate even manually compared to a flat board.
If your PCB had more than two layers, it would be a nuisance to manufacture because you need special machines.
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