Reprap Forum - Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Here well try to put stuff onto boards and bake them. With robots! And toaster ovens! And well try to build other fabrication workcells and connect them together. https://reprap.org/forum/list.php?132 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:45:08 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,886983,886994#msg-886994 Re: Index Pick and Place - A RepRap PnP https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,886983,886994#msg-886994 Youtube channel With great interest]]> Dust Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Sun, 14 Nov 2021 07:58:23 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,886983,886987#msg-886987 Re: Index Pick and Place - A RepRap PnP https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,886983,886987#msg-886987 VDX Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Sun, 14 Nov 2021 05:26:24 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,886983,886983#msg-886983 Index Pick and Place - A RepRap PnP https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,886983,886983#msg-886983
[github.com]]]> stephen Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:57:51 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,752193,752193#msg-752193 Pick and Place for the Hyrel Hydra Series https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,752193,752193#msg-752193
[www.youtube.com]]]> Davo3 Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:42:59 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,559194,668564#msg-668564 Re: ProtoVoltaics Pick and Place machine https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,559194,668564#msg-668564 VDX Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Sat, 28 May 2016 08:27:51 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,559194,668539#msg-668539 Re: ProtoVoltaics Pick and Place machine https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,559194,668539#msg-668539 chris33 Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Sat, 28 May 2016 06:09:45 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,559194,559194#msg-559194 ProtoVoltaics Pick and Place machine https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,559194,559194#msg-559194
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The purpose of this project is to deliver cost-effective pick and place machines to makers, businesses, laboratories, academic institutions, and others interested in electronics manufacturing. A pick and place machine automates the assembly of electronics by picking up tiny electronic components and placing them on circuit boards.

To get all the latest updates on this project please visit our Hackaday page Hackaday

Our automatic feeders are the biggest differentiator between us and other projects like ours. We laser cut the parts for our feeders locally. We have a demo video of our previous prototype of the feeders here.

Each feeder bus has a master feeder that talks back to the control computer with a USB cable. Each master feeder can be connected to multiple "daughter" feeders through a CAN (Controller Area Network) bus. The CAN bus is what is used in automobiles for reliable communication among all of the electronics in vehicles. The feeders are daisy chained together to establish communication from a feeder, to the master feeder, back to the control computer.

Various parameters stored on the feeder control the actions of the feeders, such as how many steps the stepper motor should take to advance the tape reel, how long the tape retraction motor should run, and so on.



We will release the details for all of this communication in case someone wants to use our feeders with a different machine.

The YouTube video shows placements of 0603 and 0805 passives as well as TSSOP-28 (0.65mm pitch) and TQFP-44 (0.8m pitch) packages. These are not the limits of the machine! It's just what we use. We will upload videos to demonstrate the machine's performance with other packages. If you have a package you're curious about, let us know, or offer to send us a part to try!

In terms of components-per-hour: the average placement speed as shown in the video is 260 components-per-hour. Yes, we know this is on the slow side. This is with full vision processing on every part (worst case scenario). If you line up your parts square with your circuit board and don't need to do rotational vision correction on every part you can currently get closer to 850 components-per-hour.

We should be able to move our speed numbers up substantially before shipping. Our new head will enable this in several ways.

With our current pick up head our computer vision might tell us we need to rotate 3 degrees, then we tell the motor to rotate the part 3 degrees, but then we have to check to see if we actually rotated the part by 3 degrees. We have to check our work because of the backlash between our motor and our suction tube: with the backlash we might not actually rotate the part a full 3 degrees. The new head has zero backlash. So we'll be able to fly over the upward looking camera, grab a snapshot, immediately start on our way to the placement location, and apply the rotational correction as we're dropping the part after the computer vision has operated on the snapshot it took.

The new head will also have the cameras rigidly mounted to it, so we should be able to go faster without the cameras unintentionally moving from the acceleration.
]]> ProtoVoltaics Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:37:34 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,552146#msg-552146 Re: How to vacuum seal a 3d printed nozzle adaptor for SMT PnP https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,552146#msg-552146 But the result is good ... all the air goes through the nozzle. The proposal was a good idea .... thank you Viktor.
Btw. even the print failure in the thin section seems to be sealed.]]> lutz_dd Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:40:11 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550307#msg-550307 Re: How to vacuum seal a 3d printed nozzle adaptor for SMT PnP https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550307#msg-550307 lutz_dd Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:10:34 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550291#msg-550291 Re: How to vacuum seal a 3d printed nozzle adaptor for SMT PnP https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550291#msg-550291 VDX Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:26:21 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550269#msg-550269 Re: How to vacuum seal a 3d printed nozzle adaptor for SMT PnP https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550269#msg-550269 lutz_dd Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:08:23 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550224#msg-550224 Re: How to vacuum seal a 3d printed nozzle adaptor for SMT PnP https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550224#msg-550224 VDX Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:01:12 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550194#msg-550194 How to vacuum seal a 3d printed nozzle adaptor for SMT PnP https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,550194,550194#msg-550194
Unfortunately the 3D printed parts are not vacuum tight right after the print. I can breath through the hose mounted to the adaptor ... it means most of the vacuum is left until it comes to the nozzle tip. At the moment liquid rubber on the inside and paint on the outside seales it enough. But it takes time (2x 24h) to get it dried :-(
The printer runs with slight underextrusion to fit inner and outer design geometries (0.5mm nozzle gives a 0.58mm string).

How can I get the parts really airtight without a long-standing postprocessing as described above?]]> lutz_dd Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 26 Aug 2015 02:41:32 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,15167,547431#msg-547431 Re: Pick and Place toolhead, STL files included! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,15167,547431#msg-547431
Actually I'm developing a paste-dispensing system with a piezo-driven dispenser head, where the basic machine is meant to be used as laser-engraver or 3D-printer too with optional heads:
[forums.reprap.org]

Will try to opt it for pick_n_place too, but this will take some time ...]]> VDX Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:01:59 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,15167,547241#msg-547241 Re: Pick and Place toolhead, STL files included! https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,15167,547241#msg-547241 DaveHarper Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:32:20 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,499807,511908#msg-511908 Re: VisionBot Pick and Place Machine for SMT https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,499807,511908#msg-511908
@dc42 VisionBot is just a SMT Placement Equipment for PCBA. Using fiducials you can use your own unmounted PCBs that were printed/made by a 3D Printer/CNC/facory and use VisionBot to assembly the PCB. No other need.

@chris33 the software was designed especially for VisionBot machines. There will be a plugin container where you can write your own plugins for other machines/components, but I am not very sure about the validity of the idea. In 2-3 weeks we will launch our own forum to allow people to discuss about VisionBot machines and VisionBot software.


]]> visionbot Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Thu, 21 May 2015 15:23:21 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,499807,509306#msg-509306 Re: VisionBot Pick and Place Machine for SMT https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,499807,509306#msg-509306 chris33 Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Fri, 15 May 2015 14:30:20 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,499807,508687#msg-508687 Re: VisionBot Pick and Place Machine for SMT https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,499807,508687#msg-508687
I have a delta printer working well and I am sure it could be adapted to do the pick and place. But I've no idea how to extract the components from the reels or tubes - and a lot of software would obviously be needed.]]> dc42 Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 13 May 2015 19:19:11 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,499807,499807#msg-499807 VisionBot Pick and Place Machine for SMT https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,499807,499807#msg-499807
VisionBot will enable the dream of many makers who want to turn their homemade prototypes into industrial products. For more details access www.visionbot.net

Initially, we were interested in releasing the software open-source for everybody.







Do you have any questions about my project? I hope you won't consider my post a spam!
]]> visionbot Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:09:59 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,458673#msg-458673 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,458673#msg-458673
@ Andreas: I joined the group, it is public, but you will need zo have an account to see mor in that group and you just need to press the join button and fill out the captcha. Thats it. But you wouldn't find any DIY there as it seems.

@ALL: Is there actually someone building on this project? Or do i missed another place where this is going on?


Just wondering that ther ewas allready a forum for this topic. I'm very interested to get involved in this part project of reprap.

I just found some projects out there and decided to start getting the best out of what i can find.
I allready bought a vacuum compressor and a selenoid but as i will integrate it in a new CNC build I am on right now, i didn't thought much about the rest of it.

Anyone?]]> mo22 Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:50:28 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,367666#msg-367666 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,367666#msg-367666 Andres Pena Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Mon, 09 Jun 2014 23:21:53 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,365347#msg-365347 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,365347#msg-365347
I don't know anything about Yahoo Groups... (I don't know who to send to, whether I should join the group to send, etc.)

How do I message the DIY and commercial pick-and-place forum? (Should I bother them?)

Can someone please give me a clue as soon as possible? Should I just email picknplace @yahoogroups.com? Should I join the group somehow?]]> Andres Pena Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Wed, 04 Jun 2014 22:12:20 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,364295#msg-364295 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,364295#msg-364295
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Ant
Chips are not magnetic. Anyway, the way they do it now is fairly easy to do and all figured out.

The problem was my jumboed grammar. I didn't mean to say moving the chip with a magnetic field. I meant physically pushing it with a magnet, which is controlled and moved by another magnet.

I think in factories they can do it easily with a huge super fast machine. But those 'DIY' people want to make their own stuff without buying a large mass production machine.

Anyhow, I think the reason few people are replying to me is because I'm not clear about what I mean. How could I rephrased it to be more understandable?]]> Andres Pena Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Mon, 02 Jun 2014 23:48:20 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,363477#msg-363477 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,363477#msg-363477 Ant Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Sun, 01 Jun 2014 10:34:24 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,363295#msg-363295 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,363295#msg-363295 Andres Pena Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Sat, 31 May 2014 21:01:53 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,363288#msg-363288 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,363288#msg-363288
I have a suggestion for the DIY and commercial pick-and-place forum.

But I don't know anything about Yahoo Groups... (I don't know who to send to, whether I should join the group to send, etc.)

My suggestion:
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Might there be an easier way to add components (e.g. computer chips) to a circuit board? Dispense the computer chip on the circuit board. Also dispense a small magnet on the circuit board. The small magnet can be moved around by moving another magnet underneath the circuit board.

Using a video camera, an artificial-intelligence may locate the chip, and push the chip to it's correct location with the small magnet.

Once everything is in place, we can keep spraying the circuit board with glue until everything sinks in.

Note:

Maybe the small magnet should have low friction, because it presses against the circuit board and you don't want it to scratch the circuit board too much.

The dispensing mechanism does not need to be perfect... If we dispense too many unneeded components, we can move them out of the way. But what if a component becomes upside-down? The small magnet can have wedge or something to flip components. Or it can push the upside-down component out of the way and use a component that is not upside-down.

Will it work?

How do I message them? (Should I bother them?)]]> Andres Pena Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Sat, 31 May 2014 20:33:44 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,320779#msg-320779 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,320779#msg-320779 The OS3DC will this year take place at the weekend right after the euromold.
I'll get back to with further details.

Sincerely, Marcus

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VDX
... Can pack then my car with some of the tools and equipment for p&p and microassembly/microinspection from my basement ...
]]> Fim Fischer Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:19:02 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,320767#msg-320767 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,320767#msg-320767
I can't visit on regular basis, but evantually at the OS3DC.

Can pack then my car with some of the tools and equipment for p&p and microassembly/microinspection from my basement ...]]> VDX Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:47:24 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,320530#msg-320530 Re: Pick-and-Place https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,30757,320530#msg-320530
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VDX
... Some of the prototypes are available - if you need something special, i can reactivate or rebuild most of them ...

Hello Viktor,
your ongoing enthusiasm for DIY and Open Source is amazing.
I am right now preparing to launch a weekly Pick and Place assembly meeting, your know-how is very welcome.

We hopefully will already have something to show at the OS3DC 2014.

Regards,
Marcus
]]> Fim Fischer Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:35:52 -0500 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,320524,320524#msg-320524 Frankfurt: Pick & Place assembly meeting https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?132,320524,320524#msg-320524
I am currently preparing a weekly Pick and Place assembly meeting,
which takes place in Frankfurt - at the 'Gallus-Theater'.

We meet every wednesday, 19.00h.

The goal of the project is to gather Pick & Place knowledge - insights of the underlying technology by rebuilding an existing DIY Pick and Place Project. The chosen Open Source DIY Project is almost finished - and very well documented.
If you are interested in collaborating - contact me or just drop in.

Directions/Map
Gallus-Theater
Kleyerstraße 15
60326 Frankfurt am Main

Further Details:
DIY CAMPUS

Sincerely
Marcus
+49 15774220000]]> Fim Fischer Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!) Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:21:16 -0500