PCB Milling Progress

Finally got the PCB milling working... I used a board I already tried to mill on to see if this time my new board would work and just like the sun rises it did. But the traces where on top of other traces so they don't have contiguity. But the overall mill was a success. I designed the board in Eagle following the layout I designed in Illustrator earlier, which was really nice because I could see how I wanted it to turn out and how I would route all the traces. I then used an updated version of my GRBL controller program, called CANDLE 1.0 and it includes a height mapping function that allows you to easily probe the board to alter the heights in the G-CODE to match the real life PCB.



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