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News a 3D Printer for Electronic PCB

Discussion in 'Electronic and hardware generally' started by RacingMat, Jan 9, 2015.

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    RacingMat Well-Known Member Gold Contributor

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    A very neat idea. You are pretty much locked into the design software arrangement though.
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    If the frame is stiff enough, you can also add a mill head to a 3D printer and use it to mill PCBs, that's how I do my circuit boards, it's precise enough to do SMD boards :
    milled_PCB.jpg ISP.jpg
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    @petrus : nicely done! :cool:
    Can you please post some pictures of your modded 3D printer?
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    Actually, I built my 3D printer with PCB engraving in mind from the beginning, so I made it very stiff, I made a wiki on reprap.org about it : http://reprap.org/wiki/Heavy_Mendel
    And this is the spindle :
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    Sorry I just logged on after a long while and saw this. This sort of stuff is what I had always wanted to expand my 3D printer to do, but that sort of project was put to the side. I now build simple circuits the old fashioned way (mostly still with breadboards, ha), and any of the complicated stuff is pretty much taken care of by others and mass produced. great link though @RacingMat, thanks for sharing.
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    looks great! I have a 3d perinter, i'd like to remake it to like this!
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    This is a very interesting way to build PCB, thanks for documenting it !
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