Electronics Design
For this week, we are assigned to redraw the "hello world board", add LED and button, and make it!
The process is pretty straight forward. In my case, draw the board out with Eagle, modified the png file Eagle export out with Inkscape, and mill it out on CNC.
For the last step, mill it out on CNC, I decide to try a new software called GRBL Controller. GRBL Controller work as a host software for CNC that have a GRBL G-Code interpreter. With a little more functions than Universal G-Code sender, GRBL Controller looks promising for CNC work that require a g-code file (ie, job that need to use a more powerful CAM).
The PCB on the left shows a failed attempt. Due to the incorrect milling bit size entered into the CAM software, many of the traces are not seperated. The right PCB is a succes after correct the bit size.
The finished Hello World Board. I still need to get a finer soldering point and practice solding with SMD.
Notice the blue jump wire. It's there because in my Eagle drawing, one of the line in the schematic is not connected properly, and I forgot to check the error message......
Going back to Eagle to fix my mistake.
Looking forward to learn how to program this PCB next week!!!!!
Feel so much more satifying than useing a off the shelf board.