Paul Kelly wrote: > > I have a requirement to automate the soldering of terminals and other > through hole components. At present, these get done by hand and its > fairly expensive. > > Initially, I was going to buy or build a gantry with an A axis and > maybe a pneumatic slide to feed an iron in at an angle. But yesterday > I impulse purchased a small 6DOF robot arm sans controller (google > “PUMA 260”) > > The PWM amps are easy, but I want PC-in-the-loop control so I can > manually teach positions. With a total of 7 axii, that pretty much > means EMC so here I am... > > Anyone done anything like this before? > Soldering robots are fairly standard equipment, you can buy old ones on eBay from time to time. I am a member of a Pico and Place group, and I think several members have used stock soldering robots or rebuilt old ones to use new PC-CNC controls. See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PicknPlace/join
for more info. You can search the archives for threads on these machines. Manual teaching is not a great feature of EMC2, although there are some mods that allow it. I think a lot of people have used CAD data from the PCB software to set this up rather than teaching the positions. I have a pick and place machine, and I use the CAD data for that. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
