Verket FabLab Hanne Eriksen Files

#week 13
input devices


This weeks assignment

Measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you have designed and read it.



designing a circuitboard in eagle




Schematics

Board

Milling the PCB

Jakob came across a genious plugin for generating G-code for PCB milling, called "PCB-G-Code 3"

Here is a quick manual for how to install it:

Installing EAGLE Plugin for generating gcode for PCB milling

Go to  https://www.dropbox.com/s/zorvmb1os9x3r2w/pcb-gcode-3.6.2.4.zip to download the plugin.

Move the plugin folder to the "ulp" folder in EAGLE application folder.



Go back to EAGLE and navigate to open "Control panel window". 
Go to "Options" in the top menu and select "Directory".
Make sure to update the "User Language Folder path" to correspond with the path where you put the plugin folder.

Go to back to the "Board" window and select  "File" + " Run ulp". Navigate to the pluing folder and select the  "pcb-gcode-setup.ulp" file. This will start the plugin.


 

Generating the milling paths in the plugin



 

Generating the milling paths in the plugin



 

Using Mach3


 

CNC milling


 

Soldering the components

 

Soldering the components

 

Input device for Final Project

For Final project, I fabricated 2 SatschaKit boards that I connected to 3 RFID readers by designing and fabricating 3 connectionboards.

You can find the whole
documentation here