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
09 | I trying the cut the copper tap after placing it on a hard surface and I got a much better results- details of this process was documneted on Week 10
10 | bythe time i reached Week 11, we were able to get a PCB bord to try milling. this was the testes we ran but the results are not good enough and we need to try diffrenet milling bits which we are waiting for to arrive.
- 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