4. Electronics production¶
Machnice Characterizing¶
Started with a group assignment of characterizing the machines we had .
Modela Mdx 20 , China router 30*40 & MonoFab SRM 20 .
Fabrication¶
Design¶
I chose to make Ali’s Board design
I dowloaded the images of the traces and the outer .
Imported to Fab Modules and edited setups , The machine and the process
and from the setting on the right , I sat the origin of my board .
Then , editing milling settings
After all is set , we click Calculate to process and prepare the gCode
then Send , and the machine starts milling .
Milling & Soldering¶
For Traces , I used the V cut
For Outline , I used the 2 mm Endmill
Sweet output of a milled board on Modela Mdx-20 .
Stuffing wasn’t very hard but I’m happy with the final look . Gonna need more practise .
Sadly , I lost this board so I milled another one on the China Router .
I used Fab Modules to generate Gcode
Then Used OpenBuilds Software to control and cut my board .
And on to milling
Traces :
Outline :
A shiny-looking board
Time to trying not to make a mess while placing components
Starting from the inside and lower height components
Towards outside
Finally high components
Programming¶
Following this great Documentation
And using the USBasp programmer , I made my FabISP .
First , I edited the Makefile as shown
in a command prompt : Make hex , Make program and Boom : you’ve got your programmer !
After programming was done successfuly , My board wasn’t recognized by the Device Manager , Turned out that I had my Zener diodes soldered the other way ,Anode switched with cathode, Just had to fix that and I got my board ackonwledged .
