Group Assignment
I unfortunately had to miss the group session because of conference, but I was able to get extra training by Marcello (huge help!!) and Alfonso (always amazing help) after returning.
Carvera is a fully automated CNC mill featuring advanced capabilities like tool changes and auto-leveling. It's an impressive piece of equipment. Specifically, we wanted to test its design capabilities using the 16mil bit it typically operates with. Below is a milling pattern we used to evaluate the machine, and it performed exceptionally well.
Following this success, we began production of the board designed last week for actuating the saxophone keys. A few design tweaks were made to the board traces to fit them onto a single layer. This was accomplished through clever routing and a bit of a "cheat code"—using a 0-ohm resistor as a jumper. The updated board design was exported as a .gbr file and uploaded to gerber2img for processing.
Individual Work
I also caught up by going through full process and documentation during the input devices week. You can view here to see better overview of PCB design & Milling process! For this week, I tried to run blinks and other functions to see if it can properly run before testing out my input devices week.
