The process
Group assignment
The Group project was documneted in details by my colleague Aisha Alshehri
Individual assignment:
01: Make and test an embedded microcontroller system that you designed
01 | Beacuse of Geopolitical situation in the Gulf reagion our shipment was delaied and we did not get the copper fiber sheets to produce our PCBs.
02 | This is the only copper sheets we found but they do not work for PCB
- Feedback: We ordered the Copper sheets from Vujade Lab Saudi Arabia. and will try to complete the assignment
- Challenge:
02: Make PCB using copper tap
01 | I tried to use 1inch copper tap to cut the main routes of my PCB
02 | I first had to redesign my curcit on KiCAD to fit 1 inch hight on the Schematics Editor
03 | Then I created the routes on the PCD Editor and I made the routes 1mm thik to make sure the machien can cut it and I exported as SVG
04 | Then I found that routes are taken as stroks and not shape path. so I had to import the SVG to Adobe Illustrator and expand the lines to path
05 | I tried to cut the cirute on a peice of tap, but it was a failur
06 | The cutter when twoo deep and its clease from the back of the tap
07 | Then I tried to change the settings, maing it cut force the lowest and speed at the lowest
08 | the results was better than my first attempt
- Feedback: Copper vinyle cut is not an easy process but I belive it worth making it work based on the examples I saw
- Challenge: Ballancing between the shapes the cutter can cut the the max size the PCB can be designed in in not easy as there is always a risk of creating short curcits as well as making soldering the parts to the board harder