Novel Solutions Unveils New Invention, New Forum, And El Cheapo Progress
idbruce
Posts: 6,197
Hello Everyone
After several brief chats with Ken and cooling off a bit, I am back to posting, however I will no longer being doing any serious documentation here. I will instead be posting brief news updates that may be of interest to some of you, which will link back to my new forum. The forum is pretty empty at this point, because I have been pretty busy with El Cheapo, but occassionally, when I can find the time, I will try to sit down and do some serious documentation.
One of the items that I will be covering in the future within the Novel Solutions Forum, is an in depth discussion of one of my new inventions. I was initially contemplating filing a patent on the item, herein disclosed, but I came to the conclusion that some of the prior art came pretty close and that it would be an uphill battle, with the added downside that the market is probably pretty small. That being said, what I am unveiling is a highly accurate Manual Circuit Board Driller, for those that cannot afford expensive equipment, but still produce their own PCBs.
This circuit board driller utilizes a webcam to produce video of the bottom side of a PCB, with a USB port connecting to any handy PC having the webcam software installed. To begin using this device, the camera is first aligned to the 1/8" bearing within the overhanging arm, with a video overlay. Once aligned, the PCB holes are positioned using the same video overlay. The board is held firmly in position by two rubber vacuum caps. With a hole properly aligned, a hole is made by using a PCB drill bit within a pin vise. The common 1/8" PCB drill bit shank revolves within the 1/8" bearing, within the overhanging arm, to keep the drilling very accurate, however, drill sizes are limited to a size of 1/8" maximum. The driller also has an accurate fence, which can be adjusted by a screw, located at the rear of the device. This fence is very handy for drilling holes that are aligned, such as for IC chips. And although it is not very useful, but it may be for documentation, the device also has a pushbutton for taking a snapshot of the area within the cameras view.
As mentioned, I currently do not have any documentation on this project, but I am sure I will have a nice write up about it in the future, within the Novel Solutions Forum. To access this new forum, go to: http://www.novelsolutionsonline.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl. You can also access the forum through the Novel Solutions website, which is located at: http://www.novelsolutionsonline.com/
As also mentioned, I have also been doing a lot of work on El Cheapo (my Propeller powered 3D printer project). At this point, the project is definitely ready for some testing and programming, but I have several odds and ends that I want to finish first.
In the photos below, you will see the new invention, as well as progress that has been made on El Cheapo.
EDIT: IT is noteworthy to mention that the collars must be removed form the PCB drill bits before use.
After several brief chats with Ken and cooling off a bit, I am back to posting, however I will no longer being doing any serious documentation here. I will instead be posting brief news updates that may be of interest to some of you, which will link back to my new forum. The forum is pretty empty at this point, because I have been pretty busy with El Cheapo, but occassionally, when I can find the time, I will try to sit down and do some serious documentation.
One of the items that I will be covering in the future within the Novel Solutions Forum, is an in depth discussion of one of my new inventions. I was initially contemplating filing a patent on the item, herein disclosed, but I came to the conclusion that some of the prior art came pretty close and that it would be an uphill battle, with the added downside that the market is probably pretty small. That being said, what I am unveiling is a highly accurate Manual Circuit Board Driller, for those that cannot afford expensive equipment, but still produce their own PCBs.
This circuit board driller utilizes a webcam to produce video of the bottom side of a PCB, with a USB port connecting to any handy PC having the webcam software installed. To begin using this device, the camera is first aligned to the 1/8" bearing within the overhanging arm, with a video overlay. Once aligned, the PCB holes are positioned using the same video overlay. The board is held firmly in position by two rubber vacuum caps. With a hole properly aligned, a hole is made by using a PCB drill bit within a pin vise. The common 1/8" PCB drill bit shank revolves within the 1/8" bearing, within the overhanging arm, to keep the drilling very accurate, however, drill sizes are limited to a size of 1/8" maximum. The driller also has an accurate fence, which can be adjusted by a screw, located at the rear of the device. This fence is very handy for drilling holes that are aligned, such as for IC chips. And although it is not very useful, but it may be for documentation, the device also has a pushbutton for taking a snapshot of the area within the cameras view.
As mentioned, I currently do not have any documentation on this project, but I am sure I will have a nice write up about it in the future, within the Novel Solutions Forum. To access this new forum, go to: http://www.novelsolutionsonline.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl. You can also access the forum through the Novel Solutions website, which is located at: http://www.novelsolutionsonline.com/
As also mentioned, I have also been doing a lot of work on El Cheapo (my Propeller powered 3D printer project). At this point, the project is definitely ready for some testing and programming, but I have several odds and ends that I want to finish first.
In the photos below, you will see the new invention, as well as progress that has been made on El Cheapo.
EDIT: IT is noteworthy to mention that the collars must be removed form the PCB drill bits before use.
912 x 684 - 61K
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912 x 684 - 58K
Comments
I think all your previous posts have been very informative.
Look forward to more.
Jim
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@Heater
"You're not allowed to read messages on this board."
Visitors should be able to read all messages, but they must register to make posts. However it may be possible that I made a mistake with setting some permissions. Which board gave you that message?
Good luck with all that Bruce.
EDIT: It is working now, but a few minutes, all the images were gone.
Thanks for the heads-up.... My bad.... I missed one of the permission settings for that board.
Something is up with that forum. It never finishes downloading.
....eventually it times out and there is the error in the dev console: Some sort of evil tracking system by InternetNamesForBusiness.com
Looking into the code we find some more tracking:
<script type='text/javascript' src='https://count.carrierzone.com/app/count_server/count.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='https://count.carrierzone.com/app/count_server/count_piwik.js'></script>
Well, I guess that's all just the everyday web snooping we are all used to.
Very Interesting!
For one, the web statistic service that AT&T web hosting uses really bites. In fact, I had them completely sever that service from my other web site. It took me a while to track that one down as a culprit of slow downloads.
I would imagine that could be a problem with this web site as well. However I will have to look at the forum script and see how it obtains forum statistics.
"...diehard IE fan...". It's almost worth signing up to have a bash on that concept