Open source pick-and-place
posted Oct 1st 2010 2:16pm by Mike Szczysfiled under: cnc hacks
This is a vacuum tweezers head for an open source pick-and-place. Those are the machines that professional printed circuit board manufacturers use to populate a circuit board with components before heading to the reflow oven. [Drmn4ea] built it with at-home rapid manufacturing in mind. The black orb on the left is a webcam for optical placement. The needle in the middle is an interchangeable vacuum-tool head. The motor on the right allows for different attachments to be swapped in automatically to suit a variety of parts.
This interfaces with a 3-axis CNC machine and should be easily compatible with a RepRap, Makerbot, or similar device. We wonder how he plans to handle reels of components, but this is a well-executed first step in the journey to a complete solution.
Want to see a professional pick-and-place at work? Check out one of SparkFun’s machines busy build a board after the break.
tagged: pcb, pick and place, tweezers, vacuum
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http://hackaday.com/2010/10/01/open-source-pick-and-place/
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