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Ladyada is at the IPC APEX EXPO looking at pick and place machines, Adafruit is upgrading our manufacturing line!
Join thousands of colleagues from more than 50 countries at our industry’s premier event — featuring advanced and emerging technologies in printed board design and manufacturing, electronics assembly, test and printed electronics! Find new suppliers with new solutions and connect with colleagues from around the world.
Here are the 3 machines were are considering! JUKI, MYDATA and SAMSUNG!
We’re not the only MAKER company here! We hung out with SPARKFUN and POLOLU! If you use any of these machines, love them or hate them, post in the comments!
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THE BIGGEST ONE!
Comment by Matt — February 20, 2013 @ 9:57 pm
MYDATA!
Read about it on sparkfun when they bought it.
http://www.sparkfun.com/news/1033
Sounds like it likes small batches and fast change.
Comment by Pär — February 21, 2013 @ 1:06 am
I liked the MyData when I got to play with it.
Comment by Troy — February 21, 2013 @ 2:40 am
The one with the fewest blue LEDs.
Comment by Phil — February 21, 2013 @ 3:45 am
These machines will be a great addition to Adafruit. You will be able to control your own production and not have to farm out or manually do the work. Looking forward to seeing the videos of the new machines spitting out parts! Outstanding. Randy
Comment by K7AGE — February 21, 2013 @ 12:13 pm
not big surprise coming from me
mydata
but will prefer a recent rebild from mydata MY9
that it new Mx100
key point of mydata was
easy to program (documeted ascii file format)
veery flexible nay even tape cut tape on tray wagon
juki was less flexible and undocumeted file format
Comment by Marc Lalonde — February 21, 2013 @ 10:47 pm
Juki! it will last the longest. I wonder if it has intelligent feeders.
Comment by spiralbrain — February 22, 2013 @ 12:45 pm
How about one of these instead:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb3fxvE4fi1rz307wo1_1280.jpg
Comment by PersonRandom — February 22, 2013 @ 12:54 pm
Judging from her body language, I’d say she’s more in love with the JUKI.
Comment by James P Lynch — February 22, 2013 @ 1:04 pm
How about our MC388 4 Head machine? I just installed one right near our office in PA. You should come take a look. You know I will give you the Adafruit price
Comment by Chris Ellis — February 22, 2013 @ 2:24 pm
Juki’s! I work with them, yo.
Comment by Scott — February 22, 2013 @ 2:48 pm
Can you also give as the price quotes?
Would be nice to know…
Comment by tanel — February 22, 2013 @ 5:28 pm
The Mydata is the most flexible, has an open source on format.
Comment by Bill — February 23, 2013 @ 7:43 pm
If you are looking for throughput, the Juki is a good pick. Mydata has it’s strengths, but you manually have to load/unload the PWBs. I like the Mydata feeders. You can have your whole inventory on feeders and switch the feeders out as the machine is running and it knows what parts are where. With Juki you must put the feeders in the correct location on the machine. If you move the feeder, you must move it’s location in the software. I have seen that there is an RFID version available, but i think it’s expensive.
Juki support is great! It may take 3rd party software to program it efficiently, while most others use the standard pick and place file from your layout software.
If you have questions about the Juki system, drop me a line. I’m a user, and not affiliated with Juki.
I have never used the Samsung.
Comment by EMS — February 26, 2013 @ 11:31 pm
i like the juki’s, they just keep running
Comment by Bob — February 28, 2013 @ 1:13 pm
Buy the Juki….best warranty and support in the business!!
Comment by Fish — February 28, 2013 @ 1:47 pm