Auto circuit board maker (P-0372) (MFN 8527)

Abstract

There are multiple domains within degree program where engineering students do their specialization. Starting from the very beginning of engineering degree, students are encouraged for semester projects of various technical courses which need proper engineering knowledge, such engineering projects need complete insight into the designing procedures from scratch to completion. There is no doubt about students’ knowledge regarding any practical concept but despite having that knowledge, engineering students face certain problems while designing a particular hardware. The designing procedures include ironing, etching, drilling and soldering the components. Following these old ways is not always fruitful because most of the time, students end up messing their projects due to ironing blunders, etching mishaps and drilling mistakes. Hence, there is need of some Engineering Learning tool (ELT) to automate the old fashioned ways of hardware designing. Auto circuit board maker is a computer numeric control (CNC) PCB machine which will serve the purpose of auto milling and auto drilling of the provided layout which omits the ironing and etching processes in one process called auto milling. The user will have to design the Gerber file (layout) of the schematic on the software and after fetching that file to the machine, the machine will automatically draw that layout on the printed circuit board (PCB) and will also drill the holes. The time consumption and stress of engineering students will be reduced to a considerable amount and it will also help in understanding and visualizing the basic knowledge