glenchung / cyclone-pcb-factory

Cyclone (Circuit Cloner) is a design for a CNC mill intended for PCB manufacturing.

Cyclone-PCB-Factory v0.9.7

The first 3D-printable (Rep-Rap alike) CNC machine, intended for PCB manufacture.

Mail list / Forum

If you are interested in this project, please consider joining our mail list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cyclone-pcb-factory
Any help is appreciated, particularly with software development :)

Wiki entry on RepRap.org

http://reprap.org/wiki/Cyclone_PCB_Factory

Bill of materials

Work in progress
Kobus' https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjYcEd1WlkqCdERINEFvRk9mVTZvdXZFR0VHVjRWc2c#gid=0
Robsbots' https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmiiQRLnjs9cdE12VDFmTHJ4N3JoTzcwbkJPb0ZLSWc#gid=0
Carlosgs' https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsQp8IK25R4IdGk3LTdOWmpFR0Nrc0RhaVJaUC1CMUE

Tutorials

Work in progress
http://reprap.org/wiki/Cyclone_PCB_Factory

Also take a look to these branches

https://github.com/yOPERO/Cyclone-PCB-Factory
https://github.com/glenchung/Cyclone-PCB-Factory
More: https://github.com/carlosgs/Cyclone-PCB-Factory/graphs/contributors

To-Do list

• Firmware:
• Keep motors always on, in order to do homing only once each milling session
• Misc:
• Create assembly instructions

News

Firmware

• No news, it is Marlin with support for G30 probing command

Interesting links & Misc. ideas

• Open Source SMT Pick and Place Hardware and Software https://github.com/openpnp/openpnp via Marcos Villacampa (@MarkVillacampa)
• Water-cooled spindle motors! http://www.goodluckbuy.com/electronics/motor-and-controller.html via Marcos Villacampa (@MarkVillacampa)
• We could use a thermistor to measure the temperature of the spindle motor: this way the software could "let it rest" when it gets too hot.

Videos

• v0.9.7 [Cyclone PCB factory] The process (June 2013, v0.9.7) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKW3fwy1h0k
• v0.9.6 Y axis concept by Yopero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzcobonQP40
• v0.9.5 Probing a PCB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5zXL8k5T9E
• v0.9.5 Milling MDF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QpxjheEjEc and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjav0hBtmYA
• v0.8 Drawing test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-HSdE89JOM
• v0.7.5 XY axis test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9umlq4oHG64
• v0.7.5 High speed XY test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3uYCXryj60

License

Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

Authors

Check Hardware, Software and Firmware sections for details regarding authorship

Render (v0.9.7)

Thanks a lot to Glen Chung for the fully assembled renders

Disclaimer

This hardware/software is provided "as is", and you use the hardware/software at your own risk. Under nocircumstances shall any author be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use, misuse, or inability to use this hardware/software, even if the authors have been advised of the possibility of such damages.