Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Semiautomatic PCB Drilling Machine Update

Nice idea.
Don't mean to be pretentious, just a couple of first impression thoughts.
Could you get it to output a g-code file so a second board could be dropped in
place and drilled with a few clicks once the first is done?
Have you tried AVR's? I'm no expert by any means but I started out with pic's
and found them quite limited, mostly with communications as going through W
and swapping banks was taking more time than the actual program but the same
limitations where showing up at any speed. AVR's have their quirks too but
they are much easier to work around.
Image recognition. I have done a little with this and if you used something
like square or octagonal pads for all the spots to be drilled it would be
quite simple to make the drilling fully automatic. Following on from that it
would be fairly simple to expand the same code for component placing,
especially if pcb markings where used.
Nice to see it working though, having the idea is only half the battle :)
Nice site BTW, have it bookmarked.
cheers