Week 4

Electronic Production

My working experience were all in electronics fields. Yet for the past 5 or 6 years I have never use a CNC milling machine to do a PCB. This can be a very challenging week.

Knowing the tool

MDX 20

MDX1520

Roland Website

mdx20

plus a PC running Ubuntu 14.04

Icing on the cake

Voilà, a FabLab Taipei limited FabISP!, I used Photoshop to add our lab's logo to the FabISP, you can download the file by saving the png below or just click on the link.

FLTLogo_dim

FAB_isp_flt download here

Fab Module

Web Installation

http://fabacademy.org/archives/2015/doc/fabmodules-html5.html

Operation and parameters

web0

web1

web2

web3

web4

web5

Result: Failed with web based fab module, sent crazy pathes,reason unknown (yet).

web_crazy

Vinyl Cutting while waiting milling

(credit to Kevin Cheng)

We tried to use a GCC i-Craft vinyl cutter to build circuit too, result was not good though. vinyl0

vinyl1

Steaming PCBs

pcbv0v1

(left fill, right fill) = (-1, 4)

Stuff the circuit

v0

v1

(Apr 15 update)

I made a new FabISP with 20MHz resonator after received the order from DigiKey

isp_sat

Kickstart the FabISP with boot(loader)

atmel_ice

Preparing for embedded programming...

Atmel-ICE user manual

Atmel ATtiny44 datasheet

Tiny AVR Programmer Hookup Guide by SparkFun


JC Chang
Fab Academy 2016
台北匪類 FabLab Taipei, Taiwan