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Pick and place machines are used for volume pcb production - not the kind of thing one would expect to find in your average maker space AFAIK.
by arbuge 10y ago
Pick and place machines are used for volume pcb production - not the kind of thing one would expect to find in your average maker space AFAIK.
- adammunich 10y agoSudo room just got one!
- Animats 10y agoTheirs is a reel-fed machine. Those are how most of the world's electronics is made, but making a single board without reels of the same part is tough.
- Arizhel 10y agoThey're also used for low-volume prototyping or short-run manufacturing, not just high-volume manufacturing. They're especially useful for placing high-density components; it's not exactly easy to assemble a PCB with BGAs by hand.
- Animats 10y agoThere's one for $1799 intended for prototypes.[1] It's clever; it uses more vision processing and less tooling than other pick and place machines. Parts only have to be close to the right place; the vision systems do the fine adjustments. Unfortunately, few people seem to have one working. There are two hacker spaces that got one, and there's even an unboxing video, but didn't get it assembled and working. I could use one of those occasionally. The tweezers and microscope thing gets tiring, fast. [1] http://www.liteplacer.com/ http://www.liteplacer.com/
- joshvm 10y agoUse a hand held vacuum tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdGSFc7VjBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdGSFc7VjBE
- Animats 10y agoI have this cheap one.[1] It doesn't work. The "squeeze the rubber bladder to get vacuum" approach doesn't provide enough suction. Ones with a powered air pump might work, but cost much more. [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CCHFWL0 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CCHFWL0