Week SEVEN: INPUT DEVICES

Lets talk about input devices. This week we milled a board using the XTool. I decided to use my previous Neko-min Board design which is a nice little break-out test board for various settings. It also has a button and an LED build into the board so that I can test connections inside the board.
The biggest issue so far is that my laptop seems to crash during kikad.
I would like to redesign this board. For the next week I really have to start looking into charlie-plexing.
For this week I really wanted to look at capacitive touch. When I was doing Fab23 I focused on various light sensing.

In this particular case I tried to turn a plant into a button. This always depends on the water content of the plant you are trying to use.
USING THE XTOOL

Using the Xtool, is a fiber laser to mill a board. I haven't finished this yet, but this is my goal for the rest of wednesday.


I exported the grb file and used Quentins grbr to img process to create vectors.