No one's replying... I'll just try emailing.by Andres Pena - Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!)
My main question is: 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?by Andres Pena - Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!)
QuoteAnt 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 wanby Andres Pena - Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!)
Should I post it elsewhere too? If I want to, where could I without being too spammy?by Andres Pena - Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!)
QuoteMattMoses I know what you mean. Many times I have had some cool idea, only to find out later that it's a "Framstein's Widget" or whatever, well known for a hundred years... I like to think that the phenomenon is similar to the idea of true name, wherein knowing the name of something gives you magical power over it... Yeah, often I have that kind of cool idea, and it very often turns out tby Andres Pena - General
Hi, 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: Quote 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 cirby Andres Pena - Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly (and robots!)
QuoteMattMoses Andres, what you are describing is known as a "pick and place" machine. Many people have built their own. There's even a reprap subforum for it: Pick-and-Place Electronic Assembly Typically they use a small hollow needle combined with a vacuum pump to grasp components. Here are some examples: DIY Pick and Place Builds Boards, Is Awesome Semi-automatic Pick and Place Goes Fully Auby Andres Pena - General
Adding 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 magnet can be moved around by moving another magnet underneath the circuit board. Using a video camera, we use artificial intelligence to locate the chip, and push the chip to it's correct location with the small magnet. Once everythby Andres Pena - General
Hi I have to admit, I don't even know much about 3D printers, but just want to give some thoughts... I noticed in (reprap.org/wiki/Wanted_Objects ) that there were many machines that people hope to one day print. Here is a suggestion for printering electronics with wires: where the wires are desired, print hollow tubes. And then fill the tubes with metal powder, forming a conductive wire. I mby Andres Pena - General