Robotics
Was going through old records, and found this correspondence I had written a couple of years ago. It was so nice to be out there with so many unknowns:
Sameer Halai wrote:
>I am making Asim Khan’s PGM89v31
>http://chaokhun.kmitl.ac.th/~kswichit/Pgm89v31_web/Pgm89v31.html
>I was trying to get the PCB made. I used the PDF files suppplied and
>got positives made out of it.
>But since its a PTH PCB, the PCB etcher also needs a “drill file”
>which should contain the xy co-ordinates and size of all the holes to
>be drilled on the PCB. He says that they don’t drill holes manually,
>and he needs to feed that file into the drilling machine to get the
>job done.
>Now Asim Khan has provided Orcad-PCB files having a *.max extension.
>But that can only open in Orcad Layout, which I don’t have.
>Anybody who has tried making the programmer or can somehow generate
>the drill files from the max file, please tell me what I should do.
>Thanks
>
Finally, Mr. Asim Khan himself mailed me the Drill files. He is an amazing person.
