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Creating Easy Glass Circuit Boards at Home

by HelioxLab

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circuit at home. Today, You’ll discover the process of ATtiny 84:
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Step 1: Realization of Electronic Printed With EasyEDA

For beginning, choose the electronic components When you wiring diagram is nished, convert to PCB.
which To convert the electric diagram into PCB, click on icon
you’ll need. For this project : at the top « Convert », and « Convert to PCB ». The
software will imports components automatically. You
- The microcontroller : ATtiny84 just have to place components in the desired position.
- Leds : 7 leds SMD. Size : 1206 Then, you tace di erents tracks. They should’nt cross
- 7 electronics resistor to SMD. Size : 1206 because we’re working on single layer circuit. I
- One switch SMD. purposely extended tracks to 1.5mm to anticipate
cuts. Papers copper are comparable aluminium foil.
When all components are chosen, begin to create With this size, they’ll be clean ! Next step, when your
electronic diagram. pcb is nished it into .PDF. In top task bar EasyEDA,
click on « Document », « Export » and « PDF… ». A pop-
For that, I use the software EASY EDA. It’s free, very up appear, check only « Top layer » and click to «
complete, you will n dit here : https://easyeda.com/fr. Export ».
Open the software and begin to create a new project :
For that, click on « Document » on the top corner left Note : The .PDF format allows for a 1 :1 scale of circuit.
and click on « New ». Fill the name of your project and It retains vector quality of tracks.
validate. Two icons will be essentials for create your
eletric diagram : « EElib » which o ers all tools and So, you can convert your .PDF le to .PNG with the
symbols, and « Libraries », that open a window. It willl software of your choice. I’m using Photoshop for the
allow you to search for speci c electronics conversion. /!\WARNING : Don’t use EasyEDA to
components. Well, for this example (picture), an convert in .PNG. This one degrade the quality of the
ATtiny84. Click on « Place » to ad dit to diagram. Do tracks.
the same for Leds, switch, and resistors.

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Step 2: Use of the Vinyl Cutter.
Next paragraph explain handling the vinyl cutter to
create the PCB on copper paper. I use CAMEO 4 cutter
from SILHOUETTE :
http://silhouettefr.fr/silhouette_cameo4.html. But all
vinyl cutters are compatible with this project. Before,
here is a way to con gure this machine for this project
: First, import the le (.PNG) into the cutting software,
I use the « Silhouette Studio » delivered with the
machine. You can also download it at this address :
http://silhouettefr.fr/silhouette_studio.html.
When the software is started, click « open » on the top
task bar, and import your .PNG le. Next, on the right
task bar, click on « TRACE », « Select Trace Area » ans
select your PCB project. Finally, click on « TRACE » at
the bottom right. Keep the graphic part drawn in red.
The cutter will cut at these speci cs locations. Some
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parameters have to be set : click on « SEND », blue icon
in the right top. Adjust « FORCE » to 10 and « SPEED »
to 2. Note : FORCE and SPEED are determinate values
according to type of material you use.
In a Second time, prepare the paper cutting copper. It
must be glued to the cutting support delivered with
the package machine. Cut copper to the correct
dimensions and position this one onto the corner of
support as show in the picture. Insert the paper into
the machine, and press the button « top arrow »
Click on SEND in the software.
Wait for the end of the process, and remove gently
the copper which will not be used.
Step 3: Transfer Copper Tracks

For this step, you have to transfert tracks on a special sticky paper. This will allow tracks of the circuit to stick on
glass.

Step 1 : Cut the paper to thre desired size.

Step 2 : Remove protection

Step 3 : Paste and atten the paper using a card.

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Step 4: Cut the Glass to the Right Size

Next I got to cut the glass. You can nd in a lot of DIY positionned at the cutting line.
store. Use a special tool to cut the glass :
Step 4 : Sand paper down with the edges iof the glas
Step 1 : Draw a rectangle larger than the circuit. board.

Step 2 : Using the special tool and a ruler, cut the Tep 5 : Take o the circuit of special paper.
glass.
Step 6 : Apply the circuit on the prepared glass.
Step 3 : Cut the glass with two wooden wedge

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Step 5: Component Welding

Here is the nal stage of the project, the components
welding. For that, prepare components to be ready to
solder. With the software Arduino IDE, send this
programm http://bit.ly/3aLnn9m into the Attiny84
Fold gently PINs of ATiny84 and cut PINS who’ll not
serve. To weld surface components, it’s necessary to
tin one on both sides of the location components on
the circuit, to position them, and solder them.
glass cleaner.
Finally, Insert a 2032 reference battery in its location.
Press the button to play the electronic dice.
ENJOY !
(Thanks to IHM3D for the translation)

Traces of welding on the glass can be cleaned with a

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Dang! SO nice.

Thank you ! :)

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