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Given the state of the coronavirus pandemic, we realized that we would be teaching [how to make almost anything](https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.20/) in a largely remote fashion. While I originally hoped to complete a 'multi-process' machine that students could use for CNC Milling, 3D Printing, as well as PCB Milling, we later decided to downgrade the scope and develop a standalone PCB Mill.
We also equipped students with a hardware kit, Zach Fredin set this up and his docs are [here](https://gitlab.cba.mit.edu/zfredin/homelab/).
So, this was:
- the design of a machine kit to be produced in-house on a printer farm
- the assembly of 30 kits,
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- it wasn't extensively clear how to properly change a tool: could do better to document this process
- bad bed material choice
- the bed is a big block of HDPE, not a terribly sticky material
- do better to fixture PCBs / at least make the bed surface sticky on double-sided tape.
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- do better to fixture PCBs / at least make the bed surface sticky on double-sided tape.
