electronics production

I was really happy with this week's work. I was pushed to get FabLab CEPT's Roland Modela M-20 up and running, and, once I had the correct cable and was using the FabModules on Ubuntu, the Modela worked really well. I only ran into two stumbling blocks.

First, I found that our Modela's cutting surface is not perfectly flat -- I will have to fix that soon. Because of this, the milling depth for the PCB traces had to be -0.2 mm.

When following the standard instructions using:

$  fab
				

the cut-paths were all over the place -- the modules may be mistaking the transverse paths for the cut paths. Thus, after some trial-and-error, I found that the following command will open a module that out-puts the correct .rml file:

$ sudo make_png_rml