Pick and Place Machine

Hello all, we were just invited to the World Maker Faire in NYC. This will unfortunately make us unable to attend the Milwaukee Maker Faire as they are on the same days.

Here is a list of the Maker Faires we will be attending in September and October.

Orlando Maker Faire, Atlanta Maker Faire and World Maker Faire NYC.

We are still waiting to see if we get an invite for the Pittsburgh Maker Faire and Maryland Maker Faire. This will complete our Maker Faire schedule for 2015.

Hey everyone we got our invite to Maker Faire Atlanta. If you are in the area we hope to see you there!

We've updated the design of our feeders. These new feeders are about half the size as they previously were, and are still capable of holding full sized reels. We also fixed communication between the feeders. We are so close! We hope to have a video of the PnP placing an entire board in the new few days. Fingers crossed for good weather, and no other unforeseen delays!

We have fallen behind on our estimated schedule due to weather. Weather has plagued us for the past three weeks with power outages. We are inches from the finish line, but we've had such bad weather these last inches seem like miles. We are back on track now, and hope to continue to have valuable updates moving forward.

So much had to change when we got our new model built. It was like we had to start from scratch. Sorry it's been taking longer than expected, but we are almost done!

Hey everyone we would like to announce that we have been invited to the Orlando and Milwaukee Maker Faires. If you are in those areas (Orlando Sept. 12-13, Milwaukee Sept 26-27) we encourage you to come out and see us, but also to see all the great things coming from the maker movement!

We have also applied to the World Maker Faire in New York, Detroit Maker Faire, San Diego Maker Faire and Pittsburgh Maker Faire. We hope to attend as many as possible.

Update: We have just applied for the Atlanta and Maryland (Silver Springs) Maker Faires as well as the Cincinnati Mini Maker Faire. Will update if we get accepted.

We are getting there!

Working on getting our first production models ready here is the half meter by half meter unit. These will be ready early next week lots of new pictures and videos will be coming in to show off the new units, and the new computer vision!

We've had a breakthrough in our computer vision software. We had been using a template matching system. This new CV we have developed is much more accurate, and is not influenced by things such as changes in light. We are very excited about the applications for this alone!

Back onto the Pick and Place. We are currently finishing up our first few production models, and I am excited to finally get pictures of them out in the world. They are so much prettier than our garage model prototype (I still love the prototype it looks so Steve Wozniak in the garage. Hence garage model)

Hey everyone! Just got back from Washington DC at the National Maker Faire. We got our first production units in, so it's time to do a timed build! We will see how many man hours goes into building a unit this week, and come up with a firm cost for the product. The production unit looks a lot sexier with drag chains to hide the cables and enclosures to hide the electronics. Keep checking back as things are going to start moving fast again!