electronics production

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Assigment:

 
        make an in-circuit programmer by  milling the PCB,
         program it, then optionally try other PCB processes

Digital fabricating a PCB Board

I fallowed the documentation provided by XXXXX and downloaded the PNG files

Them imported them to EASEL, the online workspace of INVECTABLES, which is the machine at lab to cut PCB's

Milling the PCB

Milling machine: CARVEY of Invenctables

Steps to deal with the machine:

choose a good wood platform to glue the PCB Board material
stick the PCB board to the wood support using duble tape and verify if its well glued and flat
attach the wood platform to Machine bed

close the machine and go to easel to define Zero position (stating point of themilling)

PCB material glued to Carvey wood platform

carvey wood platform/bed attahec to machine

Cutting the PCB

CARVEY cutting the Board Contour.. almost done ....

.... but it will need some hand work to be ok..

... and finishing

Take the excess of copper with the ironfiber

Soldring the parts

I'd tried a cople of days to fine tune the Hand work, and finally got this wonderful board

Programing the ISP

Wiring

Programing using Arduino ISP

I'mm follow the Fab Academy documentation

The question arrived in Step 3 Makefile configuration for avrdude, the comand returned error's...

So I'd to study more the AVRDUDE commad...

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ATMEL ICE

due to this deadends, we decied to go for ATMEL ICE because it's more efficient.

Atmel-ICE is a powerful development tool for debugging and programming ARM Cortex-M based Atmel SAM and Atmel AVR microcontrollers with On-Chip Debug capability.

Programming TPI: Tiny Programming Interface

on Terminal used the comand avrdude and discovered that I'd the version 6.0.1, an old one... which as not the Atmel ICE, so I need to install a more recent version for MAC... went to online foruns

How to install AVRDUDE 6.3 on OS X

which send me to GitHub obdev/CrossPack-AVR in order to install

but....

it was not the right version... I found that to have the avrdude 6.3 I would need to go throught PlatformIO

proposed comand:pip install -U platformio

but... i doesnt have the PIP... so whent to look for it and discovered that PIP is the installer for Python packages

Installing PIP

get error's and the a new command

trying another way... through UBUNTO

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