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# InsoLED

## Overview

In a few words, it's a LED-based PCB exposure box. Most designs of PCB exposure boxes are based around UV-tubes, or a lot of 5mm UV leds. I chose to try with 1W UV-LEDs. The design aims to be:

* Portable

  • Not fragile, like UV-tubes are.
  • Small, since I rarely need to expose an A4-sized PCB.
  • Big enough for standard sizes of PCB, I chose to go with 100x160mm which is already more than what I'm used to.

* Easy to use

  • Autonomous: Put your PCB in, start, come back when it's done
  • Adjustable, since different PCB, traces sizes, … require different exposure parameters.

## Pictures

dsc_0178.jpg dsc_0180.jpg dsc_0181.jpg dsc_0183.jpg

* The first one is the first prototype, on a breadboard, with a Teensy2.0 instead of an Attiny44 * The next two are the actual prototype (there was a mistake on the PCB, involving a quick fix to get the backlight) * The last one is the Power Interface to drive the LEDs, it's a phototransistor (4n35), followed by a N-Channel Power MOSFET. And yes, this is … messy, but it works as expected, so I might integrate it in the next revision of the PCB

## PCB

## Case

## SVN Repository

Right now, that's the only resource available. The whole project is under GPLv3, so feel free to improve it.

  svn co http://svn.redox.ws/svn/InsoLED
  
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