gEDA-user: OT: DIY Pick and Place machines

[John Griessen]

Mark Rages wrote:

> Ha, that's clever!  Bump the part against a precision well to align it.
> 
> Of course, it's agonizingly slow for anyone who has seen a real P'N'P
> in action. 

When you make many small slow P'n'P machines they will be more flexible and faster than
one "manly" high speed one....

Think Toyota production method and one machine is programmed to do
just a zone, or just one part, and the board recipe is made by lining them up in order with
reservoirs of parts.

John Griessen