Direct ink to PCB CNC plotter
Part 2 available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPSfblHRvac
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcXlak7RNV0
This is my attempt of putting some leftover hardware together
to build a plotter to help me create PCB designs from scratch.
It plots directly onto the copper board so all I then need to do is
etch it, and go !
My requirements are rather humble I must admit, 2.54mm raster
is ok for me, so is simplest SMD.
I have been using this a lot lately, and I must admit it works just
fine. For final PCBs I still use ordering services, but not as often
as I used to ...
Enjoy !
Edit:
It seems the the link to the python g-code GUI is dead,
I moved the ardGcodeWriter.py to the github repo down below, since
I seem to be maintaining it now. It can be found in the Extras directory.
(last update: 2015/01/08)
Update 2016/04/18: Pushed updates to the firmware, please update to the latest release.
The aduino firmware used for this is available for
download via github. See here:
https://github.com/dherrendoerfer/uCNC_controller
It is published under GPLv2 and should be considered
beta quality.
If you like what you see, and want to help out making this sort of development and production possible in the future, please consider a small donation at:
https://www.paypal.me/dherrendoerfer
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