Aluminum Skull Chassis - A New Beginning

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WOW :open_mouth: I had no clue what he was talking about, but it sounds cool :smiley:

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Mike, that is a flying lead/wire type of tester?

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Exactly, although we call it Flying Prober. This machine is not suitable for high volume because it is slow compared to machines that use fixtures. The benefit is that we save a ton of money by not having a seperate fixture for each board we manufacture (400+ unique designs), since the Flying Prober is fixtureless. A single fixture can run as high as $10,000 depending on the number of nets the boards have.

We are low volume but the products are high dollar, around $50,000 for a single tool bit fully assembled.

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:open_mouth:

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I added a video showing my next design to use a color CMOS camera. The video was captured from eMachineShopā€™s 3D viewer using Fraps. I added a wicked sound track to make it more interesting :laughing: .

This is a broadband version, so dial-up users may need to wait a few minuites.

The Video File:
media.putfile.com/CCD-Bot-Head

Let me know what you think, all comments are welcome.

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WOW. nice soundtrackā€¦ :smiley:

oh and the projects ok :smiley:

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Ha,

I cut the sound short as not to over do the project. :laughing: :stuck_out_tongue:

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hahahaā€¦funny

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While I wait for my parts to come in, I finished the Lexan bracket assembly, something to do while I waitā€¦ :laughing:

I used industrial black epoxy to mate the servo horn and bracket. This is just my test bracket/servo. I have another Lexan bracket that will mount directly to the Aluminum servo horns LM sells.

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/8527/headmounted1he4.jpg

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/8480/botheadmountkr3.jpg

I wish I could have done more this summer but itā€™s been a rough one with my truck breaking down, my daughters Vet bill, my clothes dryer crapping out and school clothes! Despite all this, I will have a working sensor board soon. Iā€™m eating Mac & Cheese for dinners to get my project going. :laughing:

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Good 'ol Make i cheese, how I love thee. :smiley:

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??? :laughing:

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srryā€¦i had one of those ā€œwhat the hell am I doing mommentsā€ :smiley:

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Iā€™d have taken mac & cheese over oodles of noodles anytimeā€¦ which was most of what I ate for about 6 months after the divorce from my 1st wife. :unamused:

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thanks for the vid mike, lookin good :wink:

lol, my family has the same stuff going on, except for our truck didnā€™t break down and the maxxiantor is fine (my dog, real name maxx) :laughing:

my moms draggin us to the store for back to school stuff and my dryer actually crapped the bed recently too :laughing: :open_mouth:

soon i wont have as much time to be on the forums or work on my BRAT, football season, with doubles :cry:, are starting in 2 weeks and school starts in september :cry: :cry: :cry:

anyway, looks really good, btw, how did you get the screen to catch only the eMachine shop thing? im curious

o yea, one more thing, if we sent you a design, do you think you could give it to that free lance machine dude and just have him mail it to one of our houses? and how much does he cost? :laughing:

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Chunga,

I can ask Tom if he would do it but he is so bussy with other clients that he did my work on the side. Iā€™m not sure if he has the time. I can ask though.

I am still waiting on him to review my new design that I sent him a week ago. Last I heard, he was weeks behind in production.

As for the video, Fraps - A video capture program - only captures the animated screen and none of the window components. It does this automatically. all you do is run Fraps, then view your part in eMachineShop. When you are ready to capture the video, you tap the assigned ā€œhotā€ key and it starts capturing the frames to a video file.

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Frapsā€¦hm, sounds cool :laughing:

and about Tom, you dont have to ask him if hes that busy, ill find another source, im sure my uncle knows atleast 1 person with a machine shop :laughing:

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No problem.

He needs to hire help if hes that bussy. :laughing:

Iā€™ll keep a mental note and ask him when things settle down.

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ok :slight_smile:

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Along with my Digi-Key parts was the ultra low profile speaker (5mm thick) Here are some pictures of it:

The Bot head and speaker:

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7366/headspeakereb8.jpg

I soldered lengths of wire to the speaker:

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3872/speakercableqs3.jpg
The speaker resting in the bot head. I made an error with the design of the head; I made the depth for the speaker @ 4mm deep when it should have been 5mm deep. I will have to use washers between the mounting bracket and the speaker.

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3579/mountedspeakeryr3.jpg

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well now, your just moving right along huh? :laughing: