Cyclone PCB Milling Machine - swindonmakers/wiki GitHub Wiki
As of the end of 2018, The Cyclone was dismantled due to lack of use and the Proxxon being better at doing PCBs.
Mal donated an almost-working Cyclone PCB Milling Machine, which has since been made to work!
Step By Step Guides
Software
Toolchains Confirmed To Work
- Fritzing, design, export Gerber -> Flatcam, export gcode -> CNC Gcode Controller, machine control
- Eagle, design circuit, export Gerber -> Flatcam, export gcode -> ...?
PCB Design
- Eagle - works, but steep learning curve, can generate Gerber files that work with Flatcam (gerber -> gcode)
- 123dcircuits.io - easy to design a circuit, but exported Gerber doesn't work with Flatcam
- Fritzing - works, is easy enough, need to work out how to get it to do single sided boards easily / by default
Geber -> Gcode Conversion
Machine Control
- CNC Gcode Controller looks like it should be good and has bed auto leveling support, runs okay on Windows under Java 7.
java -jar CNC-GCode-Controller_libs.jar
. Tutorial on usage here - Pronteface (or any 3d Printer software) can drive the machine around.
Random links
- Thingiverse model - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:49484
- Cyclone Google Groups - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cyclone-pcb-factory
- http://www.cyclonecnc.4fan.cz/