How do you make a boardless electro?

[Ydna]

ehhhhh to be honest after reading this thread I'm kindof surprised nobody has just suggested making simple-as-hell boards with microcontrollers. The circuit design would be increadibly simple and the programming would be as easy as making an LED blink for some amount of time when the switch hits (which is pretty much the first thing you do when working with microcontrollers). It'd cost mroe in the end since you'd have to invest in a ROM programmer and also $5-10 worth of parts for the circuit, but the functionality would be a LOT better I think.

[coyote]

Here is the best arguement against a boardless electro.

The circuit board also runs your ACE logic. No board, no anti chop eyes.

[RavishingEddie]

Wait. I thought the Nova used no boards and wasn't it electro??

[Ydna]

nah, novas weren't electronic, they used a trgiger valve to actuate the marker.
There was an electro version after a while, but it didn't get very far.