WEEK 8 : DRILLING PROCESS

For this particular week, what we're going to do is we are going to drilling our PCB in order to place the component on the board before we can go to the soldering process. We are using a cordless drill with drill point size 1.0 mm. For safety precaution we put a Styrofoam as a pad for our PCB. We have to do it with gentle and precise because the size of the components pin is to small. By using my own cordless drill I'll start drilling all the pin for every components.

Figure 1: Drilling Process 1

Figure 2 : Drilling Process 2

During the process, i have to make sure that every hole drilled is fit in size that we already set because if we don't do precisely, we might face a problem when we move to the next process of soldering all the component. During this process my partner zaheerudin zabidi already start working on the programming for this wind speed meter which is using IC PIC16F877A. As i know, he is using a MPLAB IDE v8.70 for program all the instruction need for this project using assembly language. For more detail you can go to Zaheerudin's blog. This is the link;http://fyp4bmi.blogspot.com.

So that's all for this week. So for the next week, I'll be move to soldering process of this project.