KIT-0005 3D printer nozzle is based on a design by Joseph Prusa. It has excellent heat dissipation and comes with an aluminum mounting plate, heater cartridge, temperature sensor, and more. The wiring already crimped, too!
Surface Mount Technology (SMT) are the tiny components found on modern PCBs. They’ve grown so small to build a board by hand you need a microscope and the steady hands of a surgeon… or you build yourself a CNC machine with a vacuum on the end that can pick-and-place (PNP) a board for you. I love automation so I think you know where my vote goes.
Richard says he runs 20-30 boards a week on it with 1206 parts. The work areas is ~2×4 feet on a 4×6 foot table, most of which is used for having many rolls of components available. The feeders are his own open hardware design designed in OpenSCAD. (mad respect, yo.) It’s a RAMPS/Mega combination running OpenPNP. I wonder if GcodeCNCDemo would help?
I was having people do manual pick and place before. The error level was fairly high. Even though Zippy needs an operator, and does occasionally drop a part, he *never* puts them on in the wrong spot or backwards.
My favorite part is the camera feedback for picking and nozzle calibration. I’ve never done any camera visualization stuff, so this to me is some dark magic right here.
You’ve got the bearings, you’ve got a 3D printer, all you need is the laser cut parts. Cool! We’re here to help.
The numbers on each part match up with the Bill of Materials in the how-to document.
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I see a lot of cardboard going to recycling because the boxes aren’t very good. I thought “could I reuse them on the spot?”
I’ve designed a parametric picking bin. I hope that my workshop and the local hackspace can use these to save space and stop inventory from wandering off – one of the big challenges of a place with a lot of people is making stuff go back to where it came from.
It stacks like a normal box. One end is always open so you can grab stuff from inside without the need to move or open the box. That way the box doesn’t walk away, the lid doesn’t get lost, and there’s no worry about the total box weight.
There’s a lip on the front that should be large enough to fit a label like a UPC code and the item name. It only goes on a shelf one way, so I don’t have to label both ends.
It needs no glue or tape. It can be made from an older box that’s been abused. Hello, IKEA furniture! It can be cut with scissors, scalpel, retractable knife (xacto), or stamped from a template.
Also check it out on Thingiverse.
Also be sure to check out the code for the box generator. It’s a super simple way to generate DXF files that I first used in the Hypocycloid generator. Make all the things parametric!
If this was helpful to you, let me know!
Roboceratops is a 14 degree of freedom animatronic triceratops. It has a custom joystick and a carrying case that looks like it was made by Adam Savage.
Everything after this is Robert in his own words.
