100 Watt CNC Laser Installation

Having a really good experience with the circuit design so far. The eagle software is rock solid. I used it to output a description of all the wire networks. I wrote a perl program that parsed the wire networks file from Eagle, and combined it with the locations of the chip positions on my wire wrap board. The perl program outputs a file of the networks as wirewrap locations on my board, and I had the same program create a drawing that shows the chips.

This file is the eagle formatted file. Remember, the software is free. Eagle writes eps files, which I converted to pdf using illustrator.

Here's the my wirewrap board:




The blue tape marks are placeholders for chip positions which correspond to the boxes in the drawing.

I found this really wonderful software from Eagle. It is ergonomic, free and runs on linux. It has a really nice part library. Unbelievably, I made this circuit in a day:



It does an incredible job of allowing you to hook up the parts and then re-organize the layout without breaking any connections. It exports files that lists all the parts and networks. I'll be able to parse the network file and use it to tell me the right pins to tie together on my wirewrap board.

I submitted this order to digikey.

This requried doing an analysis of the pico systems universal control board suggested wiring diagram, a jam circuit, and a pwm module

This also required excessive analysis of the connectors that will be required for this system which I did by producing this diagram:

(dwg version).

I also used this diagram to support construction of the one above:


And since there's no such thing as ordering everything at once, I put in another order.

Remember that

296-1408-5-ND is part MC3486N which is a SN75172-equivalent
296-7038-5-ND is part MC3487N which is a SN75173-equivalent

I had to order a large number of parts involving connections from several systems that will feed into a central control unit. I made this diagram to understand the forest from the trees.