This is a very important topic for anyone who wants to build state of the art electronic today. You can't continue to live in the 1970s using DIP parts with 0.1 inch leads. So how to make small batches of custom designs.
The pick and place machine could be very inexpensive if you are willing to let it run very slow using only one or two really of parts at a time and work on small boards. The RapRap type 3d printers don't cost much to build. A pick and place is not much more than a 3d printer with a different nozzle. You can find people doing this on other email lists that deal with robots For most projects these SBCs (arduino, Pi 3, BBB,...) allow you to build almost anything without need of a custom PCB. On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Bob Stewart <b...@evoria.net> wrote: > Thanks Bob et al, > > This is about what I expected, but I had to ask. I wonder how long it'll > take for that several thousand bucks for a pick-n-place machine to become a > couple hundred? That would be the final hurdle for the tiny electronics > business. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
