{"id":9240,"date":"2014-10-06T21:07:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T01:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2014-10-06T21:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T01:07:41","slug":"pcb-drill-with-an-usb-microscope-as-visual-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/pcb-drill-with-an-usb-microscope-as-visual-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB drill with an USB microscope as visual aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Single-sided PCBs are relatively easier to homebrew. Holes for PTH components can be drilled with a reasonable accuracy without any sort of visual aid. However, if you want to make double-sided PCBs with strict drilling requirements, eyeballing might not be enough to drill holes at precise locations. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/USB-Microscope-Guided-PCB-Drill\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Instructable<\/strong><\/a> is about making a USB microscope guided PCB drill to achieve better accuracy in drilling holes in PCBs. Unlike regular drills, this machine drills holes from bottom to top.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9241\" style=\"width: 554px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9241\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9241\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9241\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9241\" alt=\"PCB drill with USB microscope as visual aid\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PCBdrill.jpg\" width=\"544\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PCBdrill.jpg 544w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PCBdrill-526x650.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PCB drill with USB microscope as visual aid<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single-sided PCBs are relatively easier to homebrew. Holes for PTH components can be drilled with a reasonable accuracy without any sort of visual aid. However, if you want to make double-sided PCBs with strict drilling requirements, eyeballing might not be enough to drill holes at precise locations. This Instructable is about making a USB microscope guided PCB drill to achieve better accuracy in drilling holes in PCBs. Unlike regular drills, this machine drills holes from bottom to top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[908,907],"class_list":["post-9240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-pcb-drill","tag-usb-microscope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9242,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions\/9242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}