This page is dedicated to our very own SMT pick and place machine suitable for low-volume production runs and prototypes.

		Admin	Micha
		IP	10.42.100.5
		Host	bestueckungsdingsda
		Alias	pnp
		TinyURL	http://tinyurl.com/pick-n-place

A great many people have been asking for a status update over the last couple of months. The project to revive the PnP machine quite literary fell asleep and nothing much happened for a year. However, motivation returned and the machine is now almost ready to use. All mechanical parts underwent maintenance and are in perfect working order. We're still looking for a suitable supply of pressured air for first trials and calibration is also still an open point.

Here's a quick overview of what's going to happen over the next couple of weeks:

• Evaluating equipment and accessories
• Trial runs with pressured air
• Calibration
• doing awesome stuff.
• get/build Dispenser head for solder paste (BS391-Dispenser)

• Micha: 10€ (2012-08-02)
• Krischan: 15€ (2012-09-22)
• exco: 10€ (2013-05-13)
• Jocki: 15€ (2013-05-13)
• Timm: 15€ (2013-05-13)
• Emmo: 20€ (2013-05-16)
• hadez: 15€ (2013-05-16)
• ttb: 5€ (2013-05-16)
• Phrewfuf: 10€ (2013-05-16)
• makefu: 10€ (2013-05-16)
• Samuel: 10€ (2013-05-16)
• x
• Summe: 135€

• Converter: Eagle (XML) → Pick and place (dBASE III).

• Translation; Deutsch → Englisch (WIP),
• getting it back online.

• Demo mode, or how to make it do stuff
• Details
• Discussion page (moved discussion to mailing list)
• Documentation (for internal use)
• Photos
• Worklog (Last update: 28.07.2012)

• Component placing rate up to 3000 pph,
• 114 Feederslots,
• ability to place 0201 components up to fine-pitch grid resolution of 0,3 mm,
• 3 cameras,
• universal CAD-interface.
• Kompressor

Details

• MS-DOS 6.22 with
• TCP/IP stack using mTCP and RTL8139 packet driver (IP: 10.42.100.5),
• GNU file management utilities (you can use cp, mv, ls, …),
• QEMM 8.03 und DESQview 2.8,
• Snarf and last but not least a
• shackspace-Bootsplash.

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