Sunday, July 26, 2009

I new milled circuit. Helping out a guy I met on the web that wanted a circuit milled. This is just a test to see if I can do the SMD pads. With the Widgetmaster and Wolfgang ... yep :) The smallest pads are .254mm wide. This is right off the mill with no "cleaning" of the whiskers of copper. I'm impressed.

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Milled an illuminame for me :D

1/4" Lexan. I bought some ball nose endmills. The rouging pass was with a 1/8" 2-flute end mill. The finish pass was a 1/16" ballnose. The max depth is 1/10". The sign is roughly 8 x 3.5"

I plan to light it from underneath.


Thursday, July 23, 2009

I added a more precise spindle to my CNC router.

I broke down and bought a mount for my Wolfgang spindle to mount it to the Widgetmaster router. Was it worth it? You tell me...



Ran a test circuit to compare...

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

I know, I know ... It's been a long time since my last update. However I wanted to share this one. I was contacted by my alma mater to help them mount a SMD hall effect device. Rather than ask me what would be best, they already ordered the part. It's unbelievably small. How small, 1.1mm square!

Yeah, have a look at what I milled out:







Even closer:


The whole board is about 1.5 inches. There are 2 surface mount capacitors in the bottom right. They are size 805 for those that care :D

I'll update when I actually mount the switch and test it. This is a BGA device (4 balls) ... I've never soldered a BGA but plan to use my hot air station. My other option is to buy a skillet from goodwill and do a reflow.

Jay