cyclone-pcb-factory/Software/PythonScripts/README.md

Software for Cyclone-PCB-Factory

To-Do list

• Create simple program to provide Z probing support for any Gcode
• Graphical User Interface (development in progress in the mail-list)
• Note: The timeout for commands need to be increased.

News

• TO-DO update this list
• First Z probing results are promising, read: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113437723819360223498/posts/9VCHqqnirj6 and https://plus.google.com/u/0/113437723819360223498/posts/89W2cv1fgQW
• Added the python probing script (v0.1) and Octave/Matlab visualizer

Software: previous existing work

Here is a compilation of links that have inspired the software controller (specifically the Z probing technique):

• http://www.re-innovation.co.uk/web12/index.php/en/blog-75/181-making-pcbs-with-a-cnc-machine

• http://phk.freebsd.dk/CncPcb/

• http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Touch_Probe

• http://things.onshoulders.org/software/PcbSubtraction.php

• http://www.cnczone.com/forums/pcb_milling/82628-cheap_simple_height-probing-5.html

• http://drillcity.stores.yahoo.net/

• http://www.drewtronics.net/

• Examples of the PCB probing method

• onshouldersTv: Open Source Circuit Boards at Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5SRtwx3kY

• PCB routing using the Probe method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwgT9sCL8fs

• http://pcbgcode.org/

• http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pcb2gcode/index.php?title=Main_Page

• Very interesting toguether with cam.py: http://code.google.com/p/pygerber2gcode/

• http://replicat.org/generators

• For arranging panels: http://ruggedcircuits.com/gerbmerge/

License

Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

Authors (Software)

• Carlos García Saura (Carlosgs http://carlosgs.es) (original python scripts)
• GUI work in progress by various members of the mail-list

Disclaimer

This hardware/software is provided "as is", and you use the hardware/software at your own risk. Under nocircumstances shall any author be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use, misuse, or inability to use this hardware/software, even if the authors have been advised of the possibility of such damages.