PCB PRODUCTION
YEAR2025
KINDINDIVIDUAL
CATEGORYFABACADEMY
FUNCTIONDESIGN AND MANUFACTURING
Making use of the FabAcademy electronics production week to explore materials and pcb design and manufacturing principles
As I did not took part in the previous week of electronics design during this week I went through Adrián Torres' Quentorres. swd+uart adapter+hello board - xiao rp2040 repo using his pcb design for the xiao. Even in this scenario, first thing we did during the global classroom and the local one next day was revisit the design part to make sire production samples were ready. The files of the designed board where a set of pngs represernting the different layers that make the pcb itself. Outide shape, holes and paths.
With the pngs, and in order to produce them in the roland, we went through 'mods project' a web production platform made by Neil Gershenfeld and Nadya Peek (Amazing paper) in order to create a gcode the machine can understand. For this we made a specific gcode for each png changing depth values tools and passes.
With the gcode produced through Mods, it was time to produce the piece. For it we used the Roland SRM-20. *Important!! to set the 0 carefully to not break the tools and stick the pcb with the strong double sided tape to the bed as it can fly :)
After soldering the components to the board and loading the Arduino pico into the set of arduino IDE boards it was time to test by throwing a test blink script.
