On 9 October 2012 10:52, craig <cr...@facework.com> wrote: > I can automate the pick and placement of the balls. ( spheres may be > the easiest item to pick and place)
This sounds like just plunging a tube into a bucket of balls and turning on vacuum, then retracting when the vacuum increases enough to trigger a switch should do the trick. That sounds a lot like a probe move. > But I have not found a good way to automate the gluing process > inexpensively. > > suggestions? Thoughts? I would guess that dipping into a pot of glue would work. It might need to be a pump-fed overflowing pot to guarantee a consistent liquid level. Another alternative that springs to mind would be to plonk the balls down into a hole containing a spray mechanism to apply some glue. The ball could potentially operate the valve directly. Could you simply place all the balls, then spray-lacquer the whole thing? Let capilliary action do the work. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
