This week we I tested the panckaebot and attempted to make pancakes that looked like my favourite cat and made an interesting pcb design that alas, didn't come to life.

Requirements

Assignment

Try something new.

Softwares 💻

Pancake Painter
Kicad

Trial one: Trying to make a PCB on Fiber Marking Machine

At first we decided to try out fiber laser machine to go through an entirely new process and design a double layer pcb to test it. I wanted to make a little Ankh earrings. Ankh or the key of life is an It is an Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for "life" or "breath of life.

Features

Components	Quantity
SMD Battery holder	1
LED	2
Resistor 200 ohm	2

I got to Kicad and started my schematic.I added the components and here're the components' footprints

Then After making the connections I made sure I made sure my ERC has no issues.

Then I went ahead and routed the traces using default trace width which where 0.3

I then used the Beizer Tool. This tool makes you create a curve between two nodes or more then you can manage their curvature. I free styled my way and was greatly inspired by waves and The Great Wave. I added two vias to connect the bottom layer to the upper layer. On the bottom layer is the button and the battery holder and on the top is the LEDs. I decided ath this point to ignore the resistors because of the space.

We went ahead to a company where they had the fiber laser machine then tested the design rules pcb but this didn't work out as when we tried doing this the machine only made like a printing on the PCB that we could wipe off easily. We set the speed to 400 and power to 80 and tried different trials but none of them worked. I guess it could've worked if we repeated many times on the same spot but we didn't have the chance to do this.

PancakeBot

Making some delicious pancakes as a self-soothing emotional-support way to get over not making my earrings? Yes thank u

The Components

Step 1

I started by preparing the components needed for this operation
Step 2

I measured the bowl I'll be using and zero-ed the scale then put 220g of the pancake powder which will need 300 milk since it was written on the back that the whole bag -440- grams will need 600ml of milk
Step 3

Add the milk and wisk wisk
Step 4

Add the butter, installing the head on the machine and I heat up the machine from the griddle's heater on the back. I decide to use a pre-made G-code from the online store on the creator of pancakebot. I choose this one of santa . I copied the G-code file to the SD card after receiving it on my email then inserted it into the machine. then hit start after you added the batter and homed the head which is done automatically.

Flow

the most important thing is controlling the flow of batter using this knob which turned clockwise increases the flow and vice versa. Here i had Tarek's help in identify that it needs more flow because as you see the batter is not extruding smoothly.

Let's Make Ankh!

I wanted to make my own Ancient Egyption Inspired Pancakes. First I downloaded the PancakePainter and then I imported the image of Ankh and played with the parameters. The colour refers to how grilled it will be and then we have Blur which controls how sogt the edges of the image's shade will be. And in the export phase I used the default.