I really love electronics and all the challenges that come with solving problems and inventing things that have never existed before but building prototypes–especially of PCBs designed for manufacturability with tiny ICs and passives: ugh! It was fine when I was making basic circuits, but hundreds of tiny pieces, painstakingly placed one by one… Life…
Simplifying Assembly: Open Source Manual Pick & Place Assistance
- by: Pat Deegan
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Building prototypes is fun but can be a huge time sink. Hunting around on the board–how many 10k resistors are there? where is R15? ugh. Thankfully, Colin O’Flynn created an program to help you while you’re acting as a meatbag pick and place machine. MeatbagPnP is a python application that takes generated placement files and…