University of Nebraska at Lincoln

 EE495 Senior Design Spring 2001

PCB Drill Project

2nd Place - IEEE Nebraska Section Competition 4/19/01

1st Place - College of Engineering and Technology E-Week Competition 4/20/01

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Tim Hilton

John Hecht

Tony Lyne

Mitch Riley

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ABSTRACT

 The purpose of this report is to introduce a computer-controlled Printed Circuit Board (PCB) drill capable of:

Ø      Drilling holes of different size with known precision

Ø      Manual control by a user (example: stepping though a drill file, or entering XY coordinates by hand)

Ø      Using industry standard imperial NC drill files generated by commercially available software such as Protel 99SE http://www.protel.com

Ø      Operation from a standard 110VAC outlet

Ø       Manual routing or cutting features

The PCB drill consists of a stationary Z-axis fixed above a 14” x 14” aluminum surface or “work area” which is mounted on an X and Y-axes.  An IBM compatible PC running Windows95/98/NT/2000 operating system controls the PCB Drill.  The user interfaces with the PC and the PCB drill with the “PCB Drilling Software”.  The software gives the user manual and automatic control of the PCB drill.

 

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  Last Updated:

 05/05/2001 03:23 PM