Universal Board Mods.

Hey Guys,

I finally bit the bullet and learned Kicad. Its really not too bad
once you play around with it for a while. Anyway, I wrote up a list
of things I'm going to try on the builders blog. If you'd like to
look over it and make suggestions, that would be great.

I'm thinking about making the board bigger. Its pretty small as-is
and since we're doing this by hand that can cause problems. 5"x6"
(127mm x 152mm) is the size of board i'm looking at... is there an
equivalent 'standard' size board in metric? it just seems that there
is wasted space on the board with the current design and theres no
reason to make it that small if we dont have to.

the board itself is just fine... i'm just trying to make it simpler /
less error prone for people to make. this will be really important
once we start getting an influx of people attempting to construct the
board and also once we start trying to fabricate them with the machine
itself.

~Zach
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That would be really useful Zach - I just put something together that works - it
ain't pretty and I ain't proud. I'm not sure about making it bigger, though -
remember that two of them need to be moved about by the cartesian system.
Indeed I had thought about making it smaller by replacing the breadboard area
with a single connector so people can tack on another small board if they want
to fool with it.

Yours

Adrian

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Zach Hoeken wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I finally bit the bullet and learned Kicad. Its really not too bad
> once you play around with it for a while. Anyway, I wrote up a list
> of things I'm going to try on the builders blog. If you'd like to
> look over it and make suggestions, that would be great.
>
> I'm thinking about making the board bigger. Its pretty small as-is
> and since we're doing this by hand that can cause problems. 5"x6"
> (127mm x 152mm) is the size of board i'm looking at... is there an
> equivalent 'standard' size board in metric? it just seems that there
> is wasted space on the board with the current design and theres no
> reason to make it that small if we dont have to.
>
> the board itself is just fine... i'm just trying to make it simpler /
> less error prone for people to make. this will be really important
> once we start getting an influx of people attempting to construct the
> board and also once we start trying to fabricate them with the machine
> itself.
>
> ~Zach
> _______________________________________________
> Developers mailing list
> Developers@reprap.org
> [reprap.org]

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