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Pick and Place Toolhead for RepRap Darwin by Gene_Hacker
by Thingiverse
Last crawled date: 4 years, 1 month ago
This new toolhead allow RepRap to manipulate surface mount components. If a milling head and solder paste dispenser could be added to RepRap then production of the required PCBs could be fully automated(except you\'ll still have to solder on the non SMT components).
How it works:
a small vacuum pump creates suction in the blunt tip needle to pick up SMT components and the gear motor rotates the component into the proper position.
NOTE:
I designed this a while back, it\'s designed for RepRap Darwin, but you might be able to get it to work with RepRap Mendel.
More useful information in this thread:http://dev.forums.reprap.org/read.php?14,15167
How it works:
a small vacuum pump creates suction in the blunt tip needle to pick up SMT components and the gear motor rotates the component into the proper position.
NOTE:
I designed this a while back, it\'s designed for RepRap Darwin, but you might be able to get it to work with RepRap Mendel.
More useful information in this thread:http://dev.forums.reprap.org/read.php?14,15167