Design and Implementation of an Automated PCB Drawing and Drilling System

Year 2012, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 43 - 45, 15.06.2012

Metin Salihmuhsin , Sabit Baba Ahmet Serdar Yılmaz , Mustafa Sekkeli

Abstract

This paper presents development of a PCB prototyping system that is able to produce trace lines and drill holes on a PCB board. The system consists of 3 main parts: a mechanical setup that can move in X, Y and Z directions, a driving circuitry and a software program that controls overall operation of the whole system. In this initial work, the system is developed such that it produces a trace line on a PCB board and drill holes on two pads at both end of the trace line. We show that our system successfully performs both of the above tasks.

Keywords

PCB machine, PIC 18F452 Microcontroller, Step motors

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