fab academy

Week 5 
[Achievements]

Day 6 -->

Electronic Production:
1. 3d Printing

1. Introduced to FDM, SLS and SLA technologies

2. Printed with an FDM printer.

2. 3D Scanning

1. Photographic 3d Scanning technique

2. Milk Scanning Slicing Technique

3. Displaced Image Scanning Technique

<-- Week 4

3D Printing 
[ Form follows Function ]

Day 30 -->

STEP 1

CHECKING BED LEVEL

STEP 2

CLEANING GLASS BED

STEP 3

WATER WORKS WONDERS

STEP 4

CLEANING EXTRUDER

STEP 5

USING ACETONE AND ABS MIXTURE TO MAKE HEATED BED STICKY

STEP 6

TESTING FOR MY TINYISP'S PRESS FIT

STEP 7

SECOND ITERATION WITH INBUILT COVER

STEP 8

SUPPORT STRUCTURE WITHIN

STEP 9

REMOVAL OF SUPPORT NEEDED

USB 3d file

3D Milk Scanning
[Back to Basics]

STEP 1

MILK SCANNING IMAGES

STEP 2

MONOCHROME IMAGE SLICES

STEP 3

VECTORIZING USING SCAN2CAD V8

STEP 4

FINE TUNING

STEP 5

SOFTWARE ADJUSTING FOR NON-MONOCHROME

STEP 6

SLICED IMAGES VECTORIZED AUTOMATICALLY

Milk sliced 3d file

Terrain Scanning 
[Contouring]

STEP 1

GOOGLE EARTH IMPORT WITHIN SKETCHUP

STEP 2

IMAGE IS LOCKED AND FLAT

STEP 3

SWITCHING ON TERRAIN

STEP 4

UNLOCKING MY TERRAIN

STEP 5

EXAGERRATING THE TERRAIN

STEP 6

SLICING THE TERRAIN @ 5 METRE

STEP 7

INTERSECTING THE TERRAIN

STEP 8

CONTOURS GENERATED

STEP 9

IT LIT UP

STEP 10

GROUPING THE TERRAIN

STEP 11

COPYING THE TERRAIN

STEP 12

GEOMETRICISING THE MODEL

STEP 13

DRAPING THE LAKE DOWN

STEP 14

EXTRUDING DRAPED SURFACE UP

STEP 15

INSERTING TEXT

Lake 3d file

3D Scanning 
[3DS Sense]

Week 6 
[Achievements]

Week 7 -->

Electronics:
1. Circuit Design

Got refreshed with data on diodes, Leds, Capacitors, Resistors, ICs, Zeners etc. by our instructor

2. Board Design

Got familiarised with Autodesk Eagle by our instructor

3. Design Rules study

4. Board Routing

5. Populating of board

6. Try for Programming

<-- Weeks Overview

Day 36 
[ Preparing Files ]

Day 37 -->

1. Troubleshooting Laptops of my peers installing Ubuntu
2. Editing my Website

After a very informative Recitation with Dr. Neil, I sat for an hour or two to think of ideas regarding my assignment and how i plan to go about it. Went through softwares suggested by other fabbers like 123D Circuits and EAGLE and also different types of customised circuits online. 

EAGLE

SET UP A NEW PROJECT

EAGLE

SET UP A NEW SCHEMATIC

EAGLE

IMPORTED FAB.LDR

EAGLE

SET UP BOARD WITH 3 LEDS, SWITCH AND RESISTOR

EAGLE

ERC WARNINGS TAKEN CARE OF

EDITING

PHOTOSHOPPED CORBUSIER'S FACE INTO 3 TONE COLOR

<-- Day 36

Day 37 
[ Parallel Designing ]

Day 38 -->

1. Autorouted with different orientations keeping the customised board shape in mind.

Today, its Vigyan Ashram's holiday as its their Village yatra (journey) where all the people belonging to that village meet each other coming from different places, pray as community and invite others to their home for lunch and dinner. So I was invited to one of our instructors place which had a very beautiful and heritage architecture, ate very tradional Vegetarian food. On this occasion they also have faire as community.

I went at 11 and got free in evening around 6 because i had to walk from one corner to other and to other and back to Ashram,in which i even visited one Historical place in pabal.

EAGLE

TRYING FOR 100% AUTOROUTING IN RESPONSE TO DESIGN

EAGLE

ACHIEVED 100% ROUTING

EAGLE

MONOCHROME PNG, 500DPI

<-- Day 37

Day 38 
[ Photoshop Routing ]

Day 39 -->

1. Imported Indexed PNG to Photoshop for Routing
2. Developed 3 layer routing image-Trace | Shine | Cut(Cut wasnt needed)
3. Manual routing according to shape.

Today, its Vigyan Ashram's holiday as its their Village yatra (journey) where all the people belonging to that village meet each other coming from different places, pray as community and invite others to their home for lunch and dinner. So I was invited to one of our instructors place which had a very beautiful and heritage architecture, ate very tradional Vegetarian food. On this occasion they also have faire as community.

EDITING

STARTING TO SIMPLIFY THE DESIGN

EDITING

SIMPLIFYING FURTHER

EDITING

CREATING MY SHINE LAYER

EDITING

STARTING TO REROUTE THE EXPORTED PNG

EDITING

KEEPING PAD SIZES AS IS-JUST ORIENTING FINESE

EDITING

TA-DA

<-- Day 38

Day 39 
[ Routing Time ]

Day 40 -->

1.Tested my Shine Layer with 0.02 mm cut depth.
2. Went through the test board scanning for possible shorts and correctinng my trace file accordingly 
3. Check list for routing-> bed leveling + more

Today, its Vigyan Ashram's holiday as its their Village yatra (journey) where all the people belonging to that village meet each other coming from different places, pray as community and invite others to their home for lunch and dinner. So I was invited to one of our instructors place which had a very beautiful and heritage architecture, ate very tradional Vegetarian food. On this occasion they also have faire as community.

ROUTING

STARTED WITH SHINE LAYER

ROUTING

MOVING ON TO TRACES

ROUTING

37 MIN JOB

<-- Day 39

Day 40 
[Populating time]

Day 41 -->

1.Gathered all components
2. learnt how to stuff it and solder 
3. Learnt importance of Flux and how to add and remove solder
4. Loved arranging the components while soldering

I liked this week as it forced me to not sit on laptop whole day designing and working but also do hands on work . I discussed with Yogesh ji my final project and how i plan to improvise it with time and use Shopbot before the given week so that i am able to figure out ideas to improve my final project. 

CONTINUITY CHECK

SOLDER AND CHECK FOR CONTINUITY FOR EACH PIECE

CONTINUITY CHECK

MULTIPLE CHECKS

SOLDERING

TESTING SOLDERING SKILLS ON MY FIRST TEST SHORTED BOARD

<-- Day 40

Day 41 
[ Ready for Programming]

Day 42 -->

I liked this week as it forced me to not sit on laptop whole day designing and working but also do hands on work . I discussed with Yogesh ji my final project and how i plan to improvise it with time and use Shopbot before the given week so that i am able to figure out ideas to improve my final project.