7 months by cncdivi
He mentioned it in a comment on our 2nd article on using CNC Machines as general purpose motion platforms. Pick and place is commonly used to position components on circuit boards such as Lindsay’s video shows, but there’s no reason it couldn’t be used to position almost anything with the proper manipulator. He’s showing a vacuum style part grabber, which is common for small PC board components.
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Recently updated on February 25th, 2024 at 03:00 pm
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Here is a solder paste dispensing mashine for prototyping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZbkR9vNzI
Though this one is a dedicated commercial machine you can probably modify a machine by yourself. The normal process would be buying a laser cut stencil to apply solder paste and then send it to a pick and place mashine.
Thanks, Tillmann. There are a lot of neat ideas in that video.
Best,
BW
Thanks for the posting!