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Back to Episodes#686 – A Benchtop Pick and Place with Stephen Hawes
Published 1 year, 2 months ago
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Welcome, Stephen Hawes!
- Chris interviewed Stephen back in 2020 for his second episode of The Contextual Electronics Podcast. It was when Stephen was still working at Formlabs and the Lumen/Opulo were a glimmer in his eye.
- The Lumen v4 is a Benchtop Pick and Place machine that works with OpenPNP
- Where are we in relation to reprap?
- Powered feeders
- Videos about eeprom
- KiCad pos file
- Can reliably place 0402
- Lumen v4 product page
- Motherboard of v4
- Running Marlin FW
- Head has two heads/nozzles
- Compare the Lumen to other methods (hand placed, paying for assembly)
- OHM (Open Hardware Manufacturing) podcast
- What industries are open?
- Thea Flowers (of Winterbloom synth fame) just joined the team
- Microscope
- Other tools
- Space constraints
- Stephen does a great job talking through many experiments and upcoming features on his youtube channel
- Prototyping PCBs with a fiber laser
- Micronix
- Making PCBs on a 3D printer (hack session with Stephen’s former employer)
- Timon (Skerutsch) makes double sided PCBs by inserting enameled wire through drilled holes
Is this the year you should get a Pick and Place? Stephen won’t say yes (but I will)