Erich Styger has a nice write-up about building a DIY pick & place machine based on OpenPnP: This article is about a project I have started back in January 2018. As for many of my projects, it took longer than anticipated.But now it is working, and the result is looking very good: a DIY automated pick and […]
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Lasercut strip feeder for your pick & place
Do you need a strip feeder for your pick & place? Felix of LowPowerLab shows you how to easily make a DIY strip feeder: So let’s make a strip feeder. I have lots of components that are less than a full reel (exotic resistors, transistors, crystals, caps, mosfets etc). Most of these are 8mm and […]
DIY low budget manual pick & place
Vpapanik shared a tutorial on how to make your own SMD pick and place machine: If you are dealing with tiny SMD parts (e.g. 0402 resistors and capacitors), a manual pick and place machine is a helpful piece of equipment for prototyping and small-batch manufacturing. On the other side, traditional SMD placement using precision tweezers not […]