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Hello and welcome to the forum, I understand your desire to automate everything.Basically what you describe is exactly how commercial PCBA lines work; however these cost a fortune and have to be dialed-in well to work fully automated... Your plans sound quite ambitious. I seriously doubt that we wil...

Hey Mart, with normal lenses the size of the projected image and thus the px to mm ratio is dependent on viewing distance. So moving the camera up and down will make optical measurements impossible with the current software. Also, you may run into problems with focus; as the camera is only sharp for...

Try moving the machine a bit further away (X+; to the right) before starting homing sequence.

For some reason in TiynG firmware, the X axis is moved slightly before homing switch gets monitored.

I got tired of figuring out why, but this might be the same problem you are seeing.

Hey John, I watched your videos and learned quite a bit about adaptive clearing feature in Fusion360 - thanks for posting :-) The first half mold looks really promising. I can't wait for the second half and to seeing your first injection molded parts for the feeder. Keep up the good work! Cheers Malte

Hi Sebastian, for sensing the vacuum, most absolute digital or analogue pressure sensors will work. I have experimented with MPXV6115VC6U (http://de.farnell.com/nxp/mpxv6115vc6u/drucksensor-115-bis-0kpa-sop-8/dp/2102574) and MPX5100AP (http://de.farnell.com/nxp/mpx5100ap/sensor-abs-press-16-68-psi/d...

that I now have pickup consistency across the table Very good; nozzle runout / wobble calibration seemed the most logical cause here - so nice you got that fixed. I do have some vertical offset between the PCB plane and the pickup plane I also considered fixing this in software, but than you would ...

Hey Jason, thanks for posting this update. I have actually been using the GCodeDriver for a while now and am rather pleased with it. It was very easy to add the commands for vacuum etc. to the configuration. Once I find the time, I will post my machine.xml here - but I guess I need to add some comme...

Hello Fred, happy new year to you also. I read your long post and felt sorry for the bad experience you have had. As you may have read, I am transitioning to OpenPNP - mostly for the alignment correction with table camera. If you are serious about placing 0402 and smaller, you might want to consider...

There is no such thing. I just stumbled on this link http://www.ebay.com/itm/M3-x-4-5mm-Phillips-Pan-Head-Toolless-Thumb-Screws-Nickel-Plated-/201546633164?var=&hash=item2eed1d8fcc:m:mkgaZy07Syb6CDXEWfkQzwA . So they do exist. Woah. I guess one should never say never ;-) Let me put it another w...

Thanks Gary. I agree, that would be the perfection solution. Unfortunately I have no idea what the cost would be and which shops in Europe would do such work. I enquired with my preferred laser cutting companies and they said they could not press fit or weld threaded rods onto the plates. Similar De...