Voltera V-One PCB printing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- This video show my Voltera V-One PCB printing a prototype of a GPS module I designed. I actually find it quite mesmerizing watching the PCB come to life. Also, I didn't put music in the video so you can enjoy the sound of the stepper motors of the V-One.
www.voltera.io/
The GPS module is powered by an ATmega328P (Overkill for this application, I know, but I have a couple of them laying around), and uses a SIMComm SIM868 for GPS and GPRS. To save space on the PCB I am using an eSIM instead of a SIM card holder.
The SIM868 module is normally powered down, and the ATMEGA328 in deep sleep. At regular intervals it wakes up, powers up the SIM868 module, gets the current location, sends it to a cloud service, and gets to sleep again.
The "problematic" pad it prints at the start is actually a problem with the EAGLE PCB software, it cannot create real polygons and fakes it with loads of short lines instead. Not exactly optimal for the techniques used in the V-One! Go figure.
What a Nice Scanner Or Kana A Led Printer For The PCB (Printed Circuit Board) is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive board. Components are connected through the conductive material below a non conductive board, the common conductive material used in packaged PCBs are usually copper, since copper is cheap and common. We Love It. Thank you Very Much.
Thank you for showing the video in real time, not time lapsed. It's easy enough for us to jump the video or watch in fast forward, but being able to see how long it actually takes is very useful.
Especially with background music. Which isn't required on it. IMO
Uma das coisas que eu mais admiro na tecnologia moderna são essas máquinas e essas placas com todos esses circuitos, desde criança sempre ficava admirado olhando e pensando nas pessoas que haviam criado essas coisas, é realmente de ficar fascinado com a inteligência humana e a esse ponto em que chegou. Vida longa aos engenheiros que estudaram e todos os outros do passado que se dedicaram até que hoje tenhamos tudo isso. Deus abençoe a todos.
I love people who don't put useless music in their videos.
Thanks. (-:
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Same. Thanks for kool sound.
Me too ...
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machine sound is better then any background music
Wow, I never knew that these circuit boards are made this way. Excellent invention of its time.
They aren't made this way. Half an hour would be way too much time to produce just one PCB. Usually this "pattern" is applied by using some kind of stencil.
They aren't. This is for prototyping inhouse. Circuit boards are made using full sheet of copper laid onto an insulating sheet (such as fiberglass). A photoresist plastic layer is applied on top of the copper, and lasers are used to determine what should and shouldn't be masked. The photoresist is developed, leaving exposed copper on the places you don't actually want the copper.
Then the exposed copper is dissolved (called 'etched') using a chemical bath. Holes are drilled, plated, etc. If the board is multiple layers this is done for each layer and compressed together.
Isso é o máximo!!
Uma previsão escomunal, sou recém formado técnico em automação e gosto muito disso.
Parabéns aos criadores dessa máquina e aos programadores.
Amazing
Pelo visto a tinta já deve ser condutora pois a placa virgem não tem cobre. Mas é lento para produção em larga escala.
A good solution to keep those little sticky trails from dragging off the tip would be to have the printing head do a few tiny circles around the point it picks up from. Glass blowers do exactly that for the same reason, and the same principle works for most any viscous fluid.
Watching this was mesmerizing, haha
Why bother? Just use a Steadler marker, they don't have that problem. This looks like some kind of 'paint' pen.
Didnt realize there was consumer grade stuff like this. I work for a multi billion dollar technology company in the electronics assembly department. I service printing, surfacemounting, through hole mounting, reflow, wave and selective solder equipment as well as a lot of the peripherals that support it. Pretty cool to see a desktop mini version.
is that machine is operated manually or it is automated ?
The engineer and robot perfect picture and sound like music remix is amazing appreciated for this video and keep going up❤️
Oh, thank you for not putting music in the video, it is so good to hear the machine.
Newfution
Love the sound of the steppers working
Yes
Thanks for the video. We never get to see such things while studying.
Spent 10 minute thinking about what im going to do with my life got distracted for 20+ minute watching this vod. Damn you!
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Wow Johnny this thing is amazing!
The guards of all things will patent the sound of the engine and deprive us of this sweet music.
Great art. How fine work done so perfectly.
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It's so relaxing to see this 😊
Que tecnologia 😻😻😻lindo demais 😍 uma obra prima
Essa máquina faz numa delicadeza que imprecina.
Muito top😍
మానవుని యొక్క అద్భుత సృష్టి... 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
love the sound, love the video. watching at 2x speed
2x speed
really it`s great to have this type of productive machines, it`s human revolution.
most satisfying video. nice kirk sound of stepper motor.
Muito top,esta inteligência de uma invenção de tecnologia de capacitância sem erros né...
I made the mistake of buying one. Hand soldering is a pain in the ass, Cured ink breaks off very easily during hole-through assembly or even by picking it up. Resolution is .... just "meh!" Ink only lasts 6 months, , just like the solder paste, clutters the tip very easily and "flows" during curing, creating shorts..... the list goes on. The promise is bigger than the result. We've also tried to create PCB's by burning away copper with a laser engraver, but the best results we get from the Wegstr CNC milling machine. Its slow ( almost as slow as the Voltera ) but no curing is involved, normal soldering can happen and the resolution is fantastic.
Here in the Netherlands the Voltera costs ~ EUR 5.000,=, Substrates aren't cheap and the ink and solderpaste are around 50 to 100 EURO each. This makes the process of creating a "maybe it works" prototype quite expensive. For EUR 3.000 we've bought the CNC mill and that is about it. Normal PCB's can be used, no special tools needed, holes are getting drilled, normal solderpaste can be used etc... .
An expensive lesson learned..
that sound... EARGASM!!
What would the world be without Engineering mentality?
Excellent video. Good Job.
I'm so interested in these kind of technology
Cada linha dessa é um circuito,junto com os componentes eletrônicos. Legal tecnologia.
Its very highfunny.. Very technically and well designed.. I 😍 it
Olha a precisão dessa máquina! Por isso que esses produtos são bem valorizados!
Most satisfying video
Gusto ko ito panoorin ng paulit ulit
I love the sound
Amazing machine.....
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👊 powerful awesome stuff . Love it , much appreciated ☺
Great art. Highley appreciable.
A tecnologia e estudo acima de tudo.
Fantastic machine. Very nice.
"Also, I didn't put music in the video so you can enjoy the sound of the stepper motors of the V-One."
Oh thanks xD
Could you please give us a bit more info about what the green material underneath is, what filament you were using and if there is a place like thingiverse for PCBs? :) Thank you very much in advance!
Suricat B. It's not a regular 3D printer. I think the pcb material is something proprietary from that company. It's also not using filament (conductive filament exists, but it's crap, I tried it) it's using a special paste, which flows and cures at room temperature. And lastly, there is no thingiverse for pcb's, i simply design them in Autodesk eagle and then use some freeware or fusion 360 to cam it.
Hope I answered your questions.
thats right its a special past homogenized with hot surface then cures .
The "green material" is FR4, the same stuff that ordinary PCB's are made of. The "filament" is conductive silver ink, not plastic.
www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2017/09/20/fr4-pcb-material/
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Yours is one of the only videos of it working that's produced independently. Thanks for this.
Would the end result be improved if the flow of the silver ink were reduced? Is that an option? The Voltera produced videos showcase perfect flow rate with no extra buildup whereas there seems to be some "overextrusion" (as it would be called on an FDM printer) in your video. Cheers.
The camera magnification makes the result look more bumpy than it really is. But yes, you can control to flow rate, even during printing.
th-cam.com/video/CEUwLHgJf0Q/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant machine, very similar to a rotary engraving machine, what I need to know is what is deposited on a board, is it molten substance and is it copper or tin and how does it stick to board, does it stick to board because it is molten.
It's silver ink.
Is that the silver ink that is about 2 ohms per inch of trace? Have you actually built a circuit using this process and if so, have you built an RF circuit using the process? Maybe you could put a link here to a video of a circuit that you built using this process and showing it working with some verbal description of the project.
When it made the robotic sound... I felt that.
I'm studing electronic engineering in the best university in sudan but i see the europian people do strangest things like this printer device as there was came from mars 😂😂😂
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What he make🌹
thanks for uploading this video I didn't know how they print this
Kn subio esto. Porfa ke suban otro este es el mejor videos ke esperaba lo vi todo completito y me gusto mucho. Suban otro como este .
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Wow very awesome matchine
Nice work guys
Circuit board looks very neat and perfect. But to make one board it takes so much time, that is the only concern.
I love machines sound..nice printing..
... absolutely exact - the dream of constructeurs Like me - comes true.
Woooooooooow i love this precise machine
Most important thing in every device and machinery
This machine lets me remembered the age of plotter, it has 8 pens and draws only one line at a time, it took hours to draw a complicated drawing. It then was replaced by a big printer. will it happen in this area?
Yeah, I remember those old pen plotters. I don't think there will be a PCB printer much bigger than the V-One though. It's main purpose is to print fast prototype boards, so printing big doesn't apply.
This is cool. I came here because I had a dream about circuit printers, and was a little sad someone had already made a home production model. Maybe I'm not out of luck for coming up with my own yet, though, as the ink looks to have really slopped up the fine details.
You could come up with one that drills the holes as well. It's kinda hard to drill holes when they are close.
+Jonny Bergdahl m
I know it has been a year but there is a module to do the drills to !
Hey bro, want to know you.
Cool, very soothing....cheers.
However they’re deciding which order to draw the traces in it could use some optimisation. The head goes all over the place.
I believe, maybe for temp purposes
@@johnmoney910 It's not heated when it's being layed down.
Really satisfying
Now I can build my own smartphone!
After watch greatscott's video, somehow this video appear in my recommendation video.
Fantastic video fantastic machine... thanks..
Imagine the person who designed the board
Imagine the one who created the man whom you told about ....
Perfect Nizar allahou Akbar
Perfect Nizar i love your response thnx
@@itsmenizumol his mum? Why?
Very good idea tecnology
wow, amwezing bosss
Como eu vim parar aqui?? E ainda assisti tudo
Kkkkkkk pois é. Digo a mesma coisa.
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Quarentena, é a resposta
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@@mahamadouabdouabdou1121 Yane? Não entendi.
This would also be great for flexible PCBs as well.
They do sell a special flexible ink for that.
Jonny Bergdahl
It is amazing what is available now for the home hobbyist.
Good to see this video, but, I doubt about its accuracy-that is. Accuracy of the drilling hole details another point. But thanks for uploading a nice tech video.
Our technical specs are here, www.voltera.io/specs/
Motor sound really gooood
nice, but not practical ... and there is a short ... the gound-area with the thick track entering it :D
Thomas Pmaxuw but to good
Fixing is a short is possible before the cure ... but also designing for machine capabilities is important.This is an ambitious layout IMO.
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As you can see from this video, there are no shorts. Even though this board was not designed to be printed by this machine.
th-cam.com/video/CEUwLHgJf0Q/w-d-xo.html
Thomas Pmaxuw also I don't think that ic will flow properly unless that board gets a good leveling.
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That machine is really incredible. How do i get my pcbs printed this way?
Incrivelmente genial!!!!!
Good job 👍👍
Super video
Good service
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wow nice! this printing machine have a camera as eye? -) because amazing exactly line by line
It does not.
Ovo je dobro za povledat , korisno sve Ok.
Gostei,mas toda essa demora pra fazer uma plaqueta?! Acho que vale mais apena para fazer trabalhos caseiros se bem que no processo químico sai bem mais barato.
This is lovely.
Noob question. How is a working pcb? What a router should do is remove the space between traces and leave traces intact. What I see here is trace being routed throud the green film. If etched is this will rest in a negative circuit. I must be missing something
It is not routing, it is printing with silver ink on a blank PCB.
video bahut achhe laga mujhe
great video,,,,,,love to see it,,,
wonderful big shouts to you @Uganda
Informative Video. Thanks for upload
Is veri Good..👍👍👍
Dear Jonny, green surface is photoresist, isn't it?
No, it's just a PCB substrate without the copper layer. The material is called FR4.
Dialed in! Nice.
Hi Scott
Very nice video
You never playing in fast so l leal joying you video bra🙏🙏😎😎
Useful video thank you ...
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READY TO BE INSTALLED IN WALL-E :)
"I didn't put music in the video"
bruh what are you saying this is music
this needs 10x speed on youtube
That is what the slider is for.
kinda afraid to skip smth important ))) but yeah, that wil do
that machine need velocity
Will the solder paste work on the glass substrate ? Any idea?
The ink is printable on glass, yes.
Now you need a machine to populate the board !
Machines are greatest invention
Awesome but jeez oshpark results are so darn high quality and cheap. You still gotta drill and test the pcb here
love you
The Voltera is used for fast prototyping, as ordering PCB's takes 2 weeks. It's first when you have tested the prototype PCB it's time to order a real PCB.
thanku mai is video ko dekh kar mai banane ka kosish karunga.