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Tools of the trade / China DIY PNP Machine
I started to see like parts and pieces of pick and places like motors, frames, pickup heads, and even good looking software. Further search using my non-Chinese capable skill set (you have to iterate your Taobao search by inserting some Chinese characters along the way to fine tune your results), I stumbled upon oursmt.com. I saw some of their parts being sold on Taobao and hopefully entered the domain "oursmt.com". I guess I found probably the first DIY pick and place machine in China that probably has some documentation.
The machine does like taking some industrial standard feeders in (or some imitation version of it, saw some at RMB100 for 8mm ones). And this particular machine has vision, maximum 30 feeders, uses aluminum extrusion, external pump, software runs on a PC (saw some video running on XP, sure rings some bell here, go figure). I'm not sure what other specification they have on the machine(s). And they are selling it for RMB8800 (~USD1350) without any feeders and without external pump. They are even selling them in batches (like group order), only 20 unit per time. But, the machine sure does look like a OpenPnP machine variation at a glance, how different can they be after all?
Has anyone came across this machine?
Probably it's time to get my butt back to China and look for them!