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3D printable PCB holder for hand assembly of your electronics projects
https://github.com/alpha-board-gmbh/pcb-holder-for-hand-assembly
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3D printable PCB holder for hand assembly of your electronics projects
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/alpha-board-gmbh/pcb-holder-for-hand-assembly
- Owner: alpha-board-gmbh
- Created: 2025-02-04T14:02:36.000Z (8 days ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-02-04T15:18:03.000Z (8 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-04T15:34:16.251Z (8 days ago)
- Topics: assembly, electronics, hardware, pcb, prototyping
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- Size: 1.95 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# 3D printable PCB holder for hand assembly of your electronics projects
Do you ever assemble by your own hands / solder your own electronics designs, printed circuit boards, Arduino shields or something similar, and you were on your own? No one else around?
For tasks like these, one could use a so called helping hand. *Helping Hands* are usually made of metal and have a pinch to fix whatever you need the *helping hand* to hold for you. The pinch can be rotated and there you go. Only, usually, our *helping hands* got us into trouble:
* they lose their stability, the more so, the bigger and heavier our PCBs were
* they are unable to hold some of our stuff from the start, actually
* usually you need more than one
* it's not always easy to use them in certain difficult situations
* they tend to wiggle and move when you don't like it the least
* also, as they get older, they tend to hold less and less in a steady way
So we came up with a 3D design so we could print out our own PCB holder. It fasts to your PCB on two sides, so it holds it better and more strictly (which is useful when soldering). You can turn the PCB in different angles and also fix it to the choosen angle best fitting your needs.
Our 3D printable *PCB holder* looks like this:
Putting it all together, it looks like this:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8cdda21c-54b2-46cb-9417-838a44c61760
You have these parts to print:
- Carrier (1)
- Carrier2 (1, holding the PCB)
- Screw (1, for fixing it to PCB size)
- Tipp1 (1)
- Tipp2 (1)
- Spinner (1)
- Axes (1)
- Fixing Screw (2)
- Rail (4, if needed)
**How to put together:**
- Print all parts with your 3D printer
- put them together on a wooden board of 35cm X 13cm X 1cm
- if you use rails, you could even cut the board in half and lengthen it with further rails for bigger projects
- use screws to fix the printed part onto the board
We suggest using these screws for instance: (specific screws will follow, but self-piercing screws / wood screws are best).
In case you have some obstacle where the *PCB holder* touches the PCB, we have two different sort of pinch holders, called Tipp1 and Tipp2. Just turn the PCB around and see if you can hold it the other way around.
[PCB holder for hand assembly of electronics](https://github.com/alpha-board-gmbh/PCB-holder-for-hand-assembly) © 2024 by [alpha-board gmbh](https://github.com/alpha-board-gmbh) is licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1)