Collaborate Disseminate
These days we’ve got powerful free tools to do CAD and circuit design, cheap desktop 3D printers that can knock out bespoke enclosures, and convenient services that will spin up …read more Continue reading Pick and Place Hack Chat Reveals Assembly Secrets
Join us on Wednesday, February 9 at noon Pacific for the Pick and Place Hack Chat with Chris Denney! We in the hacker trade are pretty used to miracles — …read more Continue reading Pick and Place Hack Chat
We love it when an Open Source hardware project grows up and turns into a sustainable business, bootstrapped with nothing but hard work and great ideas, but it’s a really …read more Continue reading Angel Investor Gives Open Source PnP A Massive Boost
You’ve finally decided to take the plunge and build a board with surface-mount parts. After carefully dispensing the solder paste with a syringe, it’s time to place the parts. You …read more Continue reading Pixel Pump Pick & Place Positions Parts Precisely
This week we saw a couple DIY tools for small-run manufacturing at home that help make your life easier if you’re climbing out of the happy bucket and into the …read more Continue reading The Man-Machine
Open source pick and place machines have come a long way in the past years, but are not necessarily worth the setup time and machine cost if you are only …read more Continue reading PnPAssist: A “Smart” Build Platform For Manual PCB Assembly
Well, that was quite a show! The Perseverance rover arrived on Mars Thursday. Don’t tell the boss, but we spent the afternoon watching the coverage in the house on the big TV rather than slaving away in the office. It …read more
Surface mount devices were once upon a time considered a huge imposition for the electronics hobbyist. Tiny, difficult to solder by hand, and barely even labelled, many wondered whether the pastime was about to hit a brick wall entirely. Instead, …read more
Continue reading Manual Pick and Place Turntable Makes Board Assembly Easier
Many of Hackaday’s readers will be no stranger to surface mount electronic components, to the extent that you’ll likely be quite comfortable building your own surface-mount projects. If you have ever built a very large surface-mount project, or had to do a number of the same board though, you’ll have …read more
Hardly a week goes by without a headline screaming about some asteroid or another making a close approach to Earth; it’s only by reading the fine print that we remember what an astronomer’s definition of “close” means. Still, 2020 being what it is, it pays to stay on top of …read more