Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 05 23:18:03 EDT 2013 | feiyangniao
There is a new toy I received today: a NeoDen TM-240A automatic desktop pick and place machine! I’ve kept my eyes on this baby for a quite a while, and finally decided to make a purchase last week. The shipping was very fast: DHL from China, a total
Electronics Forum | Sun Jul 06 08:23:05 EDT 2014 | sarason
There are a few Open Source projects for this sort of thing for instance http://hackaday.com/2011/11/30/openpnp-working-to-create-an-affordable-and-completely-open-pick-and-place-machine/ Also try my webpage it has some links to these and pther pr
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 07 00:45:39 EDT 2014 | comatose
If you study how the process is done now, it isn't that different from what you describe. Instead of glue, we use solder paste, and instead of spraying it we screen print it. But not that different. For feeding boards we use conveyors instead of rubb
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 31 16:16:37 EDT 2014 | spoiltforchoice
Andres, I think if you were to understand the process a little better you would realise the many many problems you would encounter building even very simple things using your method. Even 30 minutes watching Youtube videos of current machines might h
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 07 14:37:00 EDT 2014 | eugene_em
Why use magnets? I found a KS project of a pcb prototyping machine that uses vacuum for PnP. Here is a video https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/botfactory/squink-the-personal-electronic-circuit-factory/posts/929661
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 10 15:12:35 EDT 2014 | alexeis
Hi, Nice idea but it requires care electromagnetic induction. Thus, if a product sensitive electromagnetic field then the solution will cause shorts in a PCB and even disconnect signals. Best Regards, Alexei
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 10 20:30:07 EDT 2014 | andrespena
@Comatose You answered all my question about the board and operator costs, and I'm getting a good idea of how the numbers look like.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 07 21:18:49 EDT 2014 | andrespena
@sarason Should I ask them if they're interested in this? I'm not sure if I should bother them, because I already posted on this forum and emailed some group with no reply so far.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 16 19:49:50 EDT 2014 | andrespena
My gut feeling is that I should do more than just post it here... the suggestion will ultimately be forgotten. Does anyone know where on the internet I should actually post something like this?
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 10 20:58:21 EDT 2014 | andrespena
Smaller companies many want to rent a machine, but may not necessarily use it 24/7, and a smaller machine may require less expertise to use. If many small machine can work fast enough, it can operate for less time and reduce operating costs. (I'm mo
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