Monthly Archive: December, 2013

First milled PCB

Published date 31/12/2013 Categories 6502 / CNC & 3D Printing / Computers / Electronics

After much tweaking, fiddling and procrastinating I have finally been able to successfully mill a PCB! The only minor issue I had was with the drill file created by the PCB-GCode script which would not load correctly into LinuxCNC. Luckily this is a step that I can complete manually using my PCB drill. The results are excellent, the finish is...

Mistakes on the mill…

Published date 31/12/2013 Categories 6502 / CNC & 3D Printing / Computers / Electronics

While waiting patiently for the mill to finish running a PCB isolation route job I stepped away for a few seconds to skip a song on my music playlist. As I was fiddling with the music I heard the spindle motor starting to bog down and turned around to see that the cutting tool had started cutting deeper and deeper...