November 27, 2012

Maker Faire NYC 2012
Insane Equipment

  Sean wrote: Hi all, I went to Maker Faire in NYC last month and put together a video of the people I met (including Kelvin Doe, who is at the end of the video). There’s some pretty amazing stuff, though it is mostly overview and not so much a step-by-step guide on how to create specific devices.  Anyway, I hope you check it out, and I hope you like

DIY Pick and Place Machine
DIY Hacks

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  If you have ever worked with SMD parts using tweezers gets old fast. Even the small vacuum pencils are not great. Vassilis Papanikolaou sent in the details of his solution. It uses a base that is similar to a CNC machine without the electronics. With this setup it is much easier to precisely align the parts, I am thinking that a version 2 could include mounting some motors to