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ProtoVoltaics Pick and Place Machine Project

protovoltaicsProtoVoltaics 08/17/2015 at 16:570 Comments

Hello everyone, We have a lot going on in the next few months. We will be at 5 different Maker Faires all over the East coast during a 6 week period. We hope to have the KickStarter up while we are out on the road, so peole can go home from the Faires and find us.

We have just finished adding a ton of new error detections to help keep the machine as autonomous as possible. Now it can see if it picked a part up or not. If it doesn't pick up a part it will automatically go and try to pick up another part. Also, we are pretty much flawless on placement of IC's now which we are very excited about.

We've added a function to where if it sees the part was not properly picked up it will discard the part in a bin for that specific part. This way expensive parts can be reused if not successfully used the first time. Also, we have added a function where the pnp can switch pick tips without having to re-calibrate with the new tip. This function saves a lot of time on jobs where multiple pick tips are needed.

I will try to better keep up on updates in the future, and I hope to see some of you at the Maker Faires!

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