Avid CNC: Making a Safer M12 Breakout Board

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Today we're working on a new version of the M12 CNC controller breakout board for my Avid CNC router with Centroid Acorn and Clearpath Servos. This version of the board has the combining logic so I can use normally-closed inductive proximity sensors with the machine and retain the auto-squaring logic of the Acorn system. I'll show the schematics and the PCB design. We'll do some testing, find some problems, make it worse, and eventually fix it.

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02:08 Normally-Open vs Normally-Closed
07:09 The Circuit Design
12:55 PCB Assembly
17:01 Testing
19:39 Fixing the Glitch
21:10 SMT Sample Books
21:43 The Modified Board
22:16 Re-Testing
23:07 A Better Solution
25:07 More Board Surgery
26:13 Re-Re-Testing
27:24 Conclusions

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