So today we successfully made our first board using our Pick and Place! We have many times tested the job, but this time we added the solder paste. Without having to change anything the PnP placed the board without error. It's exciting to finally see your work pay off! Here's to never placing one of these board by hand every again!

The machine is now fully functional. With all the additions we have made (upward looking camera, error checks) the machine is now slower than it previously was. There are many ways available for us to speed up we just haven't worked on them yet. We see speed as something that is nice to have, but a working machine comes first.

To speed up we will be adding a GPU (currently doing everything on the CPU). Also, we will be making a new head that will increase speed as well as rotational accuracy. We can change a lot of when we are doing certain processes as well to add to speed. These are all things we are going to be working on now so stay tuned!

New videos coming soon!