Hi The gotcha with “really slow” is that once you print the solder paste on the board, it has a very limited “open air” life. If you don’t get the board done fairly quickly, your soldering quality can suffer quite a bit.
Bob > On Jun 23, 2016, at 8:58 PM, Chris Albertson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is a very important topic for anyone who wants to build state of > the art electronic today. You can't continue to live in the 1970s > using DIP parts with 0.1 inch leads. So how to make small batches of > custom designs. > > The pick and place machine could be very inexpensive if you are > willing to let it run very slow using only one or two really of parts > at a time and work on small boards. The RapRap type 3d printers > don't cost much to build. A pick and place is not much more than a 3d > printer with a different nozzle. You can find people doing this on > other email lists that deal with robots > > For most projects these SBCs (arduino, Pi 3, BBB,...) allow you to > build almost anything without need of a custom PCB. > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Bob Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks Bob et al, >> >> This is about what I expected, but I had to ask. I wonder how long it'll >> take for that several thousand bucks for a pick-n-place machine to become a >> couple hundred? That would be the final hurdle for the tiny electronics >> business. > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
