Advanced DIY PCB with a modified 3D Printer
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- čas přidán 23. 03. 2019
- Here I show engraving, drilling and milling a double sided copper clad board to make a PCB with a Dremel style rotary tool attached to my HyperCube 3D Printer.
Watch my previous PCB video here:
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Your video is sponsored by a PCB manufacturer, but you show how to make PCBs at home?
The irony is real!
Better quality, make the prototype at home then order 100s from them $$$$
The prototype is real, the the bulk order is real too!
@@vizionthing means you can test the prototype
@@jlebrech Ok Captain obvious?
Haha
I have been making PCBs like this since 2013, using a cheap CNC router. It took me over 3 months to work out the optimum machine settings, software settings, and tool sizes, during which time I nearly gave up. But I can now make really dense microprocessor boards reliably. I use 0.5mm bits for the vias and 0.8mm for the components. If any components won't fit (usually connectors) I enlarge the holes by hand with a 1mm drill. This is much quicker than changing the bit and setting up again to make another pass. It took me ages to realise that to stop a V-bit from breaking you need to increase the depth of cut, not reduce it. I use 3mm dowel pins to register the board. Screws don't make accurate register pins.
Via connections can be made really quickly by taking a single length of wire and threading it backwards and forwards through all the via holes. Solder each one and then cut off all the spare wire links.
great insight
That 0.3mm drill sure scared me. I thought it was going to snap every time it started wobbling. Definitely spot drill first, next time.
Don't forget to wear you glasses.
I think the spindle speed is the problem. Those bits are made to run from 20 to 100k rpm.
I think a shorter bit would help too .
Agreed. A quick touch with that v bit would center that drill pretty quickly.
@@thatguythatdoesstuff7448 to use the vbit to pre drill center holes would definitely be a good idea, especially with those small drill bits.
Could also speed the retrect movement out of the drilled holes. I would guess that the slow is only needed while pushing the drill bit down, not retracting it. If one want to save time.
But yes, pre drill the holes with the vbit would be a drill bit saver. As he said in the end of the video.
Genuinely expected this to be another formlabs resin printer used to expose board etch or something similar. Delightful to see such an old school method explained in such detail! Will definitely be checking out the rest of the channel :)
Thank you for the review and additional knowledge. Another excellent review from Dave!!!!
i wish i had the time for a project like this. they need to just come out with an affordable machine that does this right out the gate. good work
Another note for others, when you're designing a PCB (using something like Eagle) and you use the AutoRouter, I believe you can set some tolerances to ensure that the routes generated will work with this kind of process. But with SMD components, sometimes things just get too small. You can also set your minimum trace widths.
This is really excellent :) ! Tank you so much ffor your work, and indeed I wasimpressed by the pcb quality level you reached, with clearly explained parameters. It might help me on project.
You’re getting some really good quality results there, considering the bearings/belts/rails! I think the only advantages the professional machines have is they can be run with faster feed rates and a smoother workflow.
Having machined several hundred PCBs on three different LPKF mills, I’ve universally drilled all the holes first, then run over the top surface of the PCB with very fine abrasive paper. This removes any small burrs. I’ve then run the insulation passes (smallest to largest). This consistently yields the best quality results. You then can flip the board and run the bottom insulation passes (if required).
If you drill the holes last, you risk the pads being ripped up as the drill bit plunges. This becomes particularly important on special RF PCB materials (laminates) where the copper to dielectric adhesion is not as strong as it is with regular FR4.
I run the LPKF for my college's fabrication lab, and doing the the drills first to deal with losing pads is genius and I'm mad I didn't think of it. Have any other sage advice for these machines?
How do you plate the holes in that process? Like for vias?
Interesting method, and quite intense amount of detail for each operation. Thanks for taking the time to develop and demonstrate it. I have have very good success making prototype PCB using the laser etch of black paint (I use Eagle image export into Lightburn), then Muriatic acid (HCL) and hydrogen peroxide solution to etch away copper. Very clean and much faster
Great video! Lots of great info and lots of care taken to present it all very clearly. Thanks! Please keep 'em coming!
I was concerned there would be too much info. 30mins video is a bit long but I'm glad it's done. Cheers!
@@Tech2C All those details are what makes your video stand out for good reasons and make it credible. Unlike Sanladerer’s which is mostly useless, greatly uninformed and only makes its way to the recommendations because of the channel’s overall profile.
Great quality for home made machine !! Thank you for sharing your experience with us !
Great video!!!! Thanks!! love everything you did
Thanks a bunch for your very informative video. This got me going with flatcam.
Great video! Thank you! it's instructive as entertaining. Pretty good pedagogy
Spot drilling ..... would have lowered my heart rate a lot during the drilling pass :)
Very high-quality video. Thx!
Thanks for showing us what else our 3D printers are capable of! This is pretty cool.
Thanks SaberShip
Excellent video!
Kudos for the time taken to put such clear content together!
Thank you!
My heart literally jumped when the 0.3mm bit was trembling on the surface, and all of a sudden went in like butter. What a moment :-D
hehe yep :P
@@Tech2C the end result was fine I must say! It turned out great. Just nearly had a heart attack :-p
Great job, buddy! It works for me. Thank you!
Excellent video , very interesting to see what can be achieved.
Great great great!! I have a CNC mill machine and your results are extremely good!!:)
PCB looks professionally built, I tried making with cnc machine but couldn't get result as you build. Very nice and thank you for sharing.
Really enjoy the 3d printer as a swiss army knife content.
Oh i was watching that tiny drill bit, waiting for it to snap! - You can get drill bits that are a bit shorter, and as such less flexible so there's a small chance of it going dancing on the PCB. Regarding doing the "center drills" with the V-bit - that's a good habit of doing.
There are also little copper rivets you can use to create through-hole connections
Amazing! Not only is this a great DIY solution it also prevents any unscrupulous third party board maker from stealing your designs. Maybe in a future video you can show how to make a screen and apply solder mask. Also, do you insert metal sleeves in the vias or just leave as is? Heck, with a little practice you can have a tidy little business building unique devices for people.
I mill PCBs at home before sending off to fab shop. Usually for anything complicated, mostly SMD I would just use toner transfer and etch the boards. It's way faster and less dusty. I'd add an enclosure or use mineral oil, the FR4 dust is extremely hazardous - takes decades, but it'll get you eventually.
Nicely done
The tiny holes usually use VERY high speed drilling. 200K-250K RPM is normal and 300K is sometimes used. It takes high speed to get the cutting edges of the tiny bits to go any reasonable speed since they are so tiny.
This is why I make my own PCBs, sure they are cheap from companies like jlpcb but I am not a production house that needs a ton of PCBs. I only make one-offs for my own projects and I can get them done in very short order. I use a "normal" CNC engraving machine though, so my controller is grbl based. Originally it came with a parallel port controller but I converted that to grbl and kept the original stepper drivers/power supplies. That was one of the first PCBs that I made, a shield that plugs into an UNO and breaks out the pins to a parallel cable to run the original controller without any additional mods. In fact the only modification that I made to the original controller was to run a wire from the new probe pin (from the arduino) to a banana jack on the case.
For layout I use Diptrace, and for G-code I use CopperCAM. One thing I am going to try next is exporting to a DXF or similar format and try more advanced toolpaths in a CAD package. This will actually require a bit of extra time processing the file in CAD to make it suitable for a toolpath but I wanted more options that cannot be had from CopperCAM and other "engraving" software. I want to be able to ramp in and easily set multiple depths, these are things that I can do easily in my CAD software.
Great! Thanks for sharing!
@@Tech2C No, thank you for sharing. Sometimes I think I would like to make videos showing all the projects that I do, but I'm far to busy to produce such content. Perhaps some day I spose.
"This was a very high learning curve for me" - *THAT* is what this is all about - what you learn is something you cannot purchase from a PCB manufacturer
Liked the way you used a ready made design so you could concentrate on what you wanted to achieve.
Would be interesting to see if you *can* solder on the parts and fully complete a home made Nano.
This wont work, he has no way of plating the vias.
If he changed the via holes to 0.9mm you can buy rivets.
Or use chemicals, which you may as well use chemicals to etch it then.
> This wont work, he has no way of plating the vias.
You can always solder the two sides of the via using a 30AWG wire. It's a lot of work but for one-off prototypes that works very well.
Very good video ! Looks like a really good quality PCB !
Just one thing though, we can see two vias under what seems to be the processor. That will be quite difficult to solder them flatly enough, as there will be a chip on top of them ... Maybe you could find some small rivets to go through ?
Nice Job!
What a great result! I have been using relatively inexpensive pyramidal drill bits, of 60 degrees, and using a depth of 0.05mm and single pass. Also, as a hint, I was able to make my own vias by placing a single wire of copper of the same thickness as the via and 2mm long, and smashing it from both sides until it makes contact with the copper clad without soldering. The result can be good, just requires a bit of practice.
Good stuff! I mentioned at the end of this video to solder a wire through each via, but I like your approach!
Smashing?
@@wf2v I used pliers to press the both ends of the wire against the board.
Awesome video!! Do you have any link to the tool you use for traces engraving? Thanks a lot
In my experience with pcb's, I noticed that , as the drill makes contact with the surface,
there is going to be a bit of pressure, as the z-axis keeps moving the built plate upwards,
but the drill did not grab into the copper layer to drill the hole.
At least, with regular drills.
Also, since the spindle would run at around 20K rpm, it tends to run away across
the surface, upon this first contact. Especially with such thin drills, or when the drill
is not sharp enough. Might be a sign, the drill is not exactly perpendicular to the plate,
or the spindle attachment is a bit flexible; it cannot handle strong forces.
Spot drilling might help, or maybe you can fix an attachment for a push center pointer.
Anyway, I think this printer did an amazing job.
I did not expect that with a belt driven system.
Nice.
He did mention using the v-bit to spot drill for the holes.
Pretty slick! Do you need an SMD mega8, or mega168 to populate your creation?
If you painted the board with solder mask then ran a compliant/spring loaded scuffing bit to remove the mask you would be in perfect shape.
The holes need plating though, and it's very hard to do at home :-)
What's the name of the bit you are using?
I've been using those you recommend from Aliexpress 1:22 but they work good for a very few boards then the tip starts to go away.
The benefit with milling PCBs are saving time during prototyping. As soon as the design is defined I use a manufacturer. To mill PCBs as an alternative to manufacturing will normally never be done.
where did you by that spiral bit? all the v bit that i buy break after two uses
Could you try to use the carbon fiber rods for x-axis for milling ?
what is the speed of engraving you use? and how far the probe is made between each point?
would you not have to link the holes top to bottom to get that to work?
Very nice video, how do you plan on electroplating the vias?
I gave a thumbs-up already some while ago to this video. But your results are so gorgeous, that I need to comment as well. I have tried in the past to make doubled side boards on my cnc, and I would rather blame the screws for the misalignment (I used sewing pins). Also, if you start with a board, that is just big enough to have the alignment pins, you can easily flip it around without getting affected (so much) by the bed being misaligned, or a bit of dirt left on the bed
Awesome video, I am trying to do on same path, but all my 15 degree V bits are snapped as soon as they touched the copper. Can you please tell me what bit you used in the video? that one looks different than the link you have provided.
Thanks for sharing such a great idea! But sir the link for 0.1mm v-bit is not working! Is there a alternative link for it ?
Sounds like David from the EEVBlog :D
Good Video by the way!
saw this comment everywhere :)
I can't even watch EEVBlog because of his voice, is like nails on a chalkboard. This video was much more soothing ;-)
@@tux1968 hes just got a really strong aussie accent,
i kinda like it (though im also an aussie)
agreed
its like Dave, but with a much more mellow voice.
Why not create pilot holes with the v drill bit for when you want to drill the 0.3 holes?
he literally said he will, next time
Nice work. I've been thinking of doing something similar. I'm not going to try to solder mask the whole thing just the places under the ICs that aren't visible. So, the solder will not go there and cause a short.
Very cool video.
Why does the drill need to be quite so long? It seems like you could avoid the issue by using a much shorter one.
Great work, I love that you used an existing design (the nano). Next you need to do the mask & soldering :-D
Cheers!
@@Tech2C You need an automatic tool changer so you can mill and solder pcbs with the hypercube
Why don’t you leave holes in the pad areas when the v-bit cuts the traces so the drill have a centering hole to start? Won’t that produce better aligned holes? Thanks.
Fascinating.
Careful when vacuuming the PCB with a endstop wire still attached to your Arduino, you can get a static discharge
hi mr techtc how about using vinyl cutter blade, do you think it is possble? thank you
would those vias do anything tho?
cuz I'm pretty sure there's no conductive material on the inside of the board
When I try to set auto bed leveling in marlin it asks me to choose type of auto bed leveling : BLTOUCH SOLENOID Z SERVO and other. Could you tell me which type did you choose ?
received same error massage
For holes, make center holes with the same cutter that you cut the tracks with. Then the drill will not jump when drilling.
Something I only realized by the time you drilled the vias - how are you going to plate the through-holes? :-D
What if you drill the board underwater? wouldn't that hinder the dust from fusing back onto the board? Or maybe hook up a vacuum cleaner next to the drill bit to instantly get rid of all the dust. Just a thought.
Nice work. I have so far failed with pcb milling on a modified T8 CNC and a Cyclone PCB Mill. In both cases, the spimdle runout was ridiculous.
Yes I had to change the flexible shaft I was using as the Z axis wasn't consistent. Such a pain but worth it once you sort it out.
Can you make the "track maker tool" make a smal mark in the place of each hole?
The small mark will help to guide the drill.
very nice. What motherboard do you use in your 3d printer, and is the marlin code available to turn the 3d printer into a CNC cut and drill machine? Thanks
what would you do plating the vias?
Hi,
very impressive result and well presented video, do you have any information on the "modifications" that were done to the 3D printer?
bye
Amazing video, but, how can I use flat cam to create pcbs with a ender 3 for example?
GREAT !! Thank You , Sir
but HOW do we get the reference designators onto the PCB?
That thick white "paint" we see on commercial PCBs is just TOO SMALL for DIY, .....or is there a WAY ? Thank You !
Could you please tell which exactly 0.1mm v bit you used for engraving. The link you mentioned in the description is not showing the same bit.
I recomend making small pre-holes with V-bit. Then your small drills have longer life, and dont wobble like crazy.
Hi! My interest is large two-sided copper clad diy pc boards, with a mix of surface and through-hole. What have you got? With process.
@Tech2C 22:00 try replace 0.3mm drilling with etching with V-bit, but only to 0.1mm depth, it will make small holes to the copper, then you can drill with 0.3mm drill bit ;)
@Tech2C You said it al 27:00, sorry for spam :D
Haha no problem :P
I need to know, if your print bed particle board? And is that a slab of leather drooping under it? Or more wood?
Hi, I was wondering is it possible to make a pcb for a 12kw inverter & a solar charger controller I'm trying to make my own
Where did you get the bit that's present at 14:02?
Hello and awesome video! Could you please tell me where I can purchase the 1/8" 60 degree v-bit spiral router bit? Thank you!!
It's all in the description.
Just like "G0 F300" you could add the line "G1 F15" so you dont have to edit all the drilling moves. At least for my printer running smoothieware that works well.
Looking awesome. I went the CNC DIY way because local post offices delays international packages by up to 6 months... Getting pcb made in China needs really a lot of patience.
Well in that case this would make a great addition to your work bench.
Too cool.
That is indeed some really nice PCB you have milled. Anything we can do for through hole plating? It will be a perfect PCB if plating can be done
you use a 3d printer to hold the dremmel tool?
Hi ... The video you made is awesome
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You are doing this series of other interesting stuff to do with a 3d printer, I rebuild the Hypercube myself with the parts of my China i3 but I often was wondering if it is possible to 2,5D Scan of Objects with a 3D Printer, like a Mainboard other an other PCB to create a custom Heatsink for it, would be very interestet in stuff like that.
merhaba, ben 0.1mm 10 derece V kazıma ucu kullanıyorum. Fakat böyle işlemci veya 0.2 mm sinyal yolu kazıyacak iken ortada yol falan kalmıyor. Z cut 0.035 mm olarak ayarlıyorum. Sizce nerede yanlış yapıyorum. Teşekkürler
I'd like to give you two thumbs up!
MG, u so gooodddddd, tks so muchh
LPKF machines makes marks centers on small holes with engraver bit so small drill bits under 0.8mm does not wiggle. you may use same technique if it is possible in flat cam.
Very Nice))
Looks cool, May i know what software you have used for your engraver? specially GRBL version and auto leveler?
Thanks
That was marlin firmware for 3d printers, not grbl, and pronterface to transmit the g-code. marlin requires an ATMega to run due to the extra processing power and memory required. Clones of these are less than a tenner still, and give you more inputs for the probe etc.
Have you tried out ChiliPeppr and the Eagle BRD Import widget? Just drag n drop your Eable board and mill the PCB.
Does ChiliPeppr support Marlin firmware?
Thanks too much, best video until now, i hope you also practice with a desktop cnc which accepts GRBL files.
which motor u r using in this video? and what about rpm?
Hello,
I have been using your really amazing work for a long time. I built HyperCube and followed the same reasoning for the printer to have more functions. I also wanted to be able to create PCBs, but I discovered JLCPCB and the whole concept turned out to be completely unnecessary, just at the price JLCPCB offers and above all quality, creating your own PCBs is simply pointless ... . Only one can attach to the price for a shipment which is (in my case) 4x bigger than the price for the PCB itself, but still the price for the whole order is reasonable. Immediately I say that no one pays me for any advertising just yesterday I got my order and I am very impressed with the quality.
Greetings from Poland.
can not run flatcam on osx10.14, help me please. thank you