Million-Dollar PCBA Precision for Just $200
The rise of 3D printing and incredibly powerful — yet dirt-cheap — microcontrollers has given makers the ability to build amazing things right at home. It no longer takes multi-million dollar equipment only available to industry — we can bring our dreams to life for a few hundred dollars. But as technology marches on, limitations are popping back up. Everything is getting smaller, making it almost impossible to work with at home. It takes wizard-level skills to hand-solder components with an 0201 footprint as it is. What do we do when components get even smaller in the future?
We’ll need new equipment, of course. Machinery already exists that can automatically align tiny components on a circuit board. But today, it is far too expensive for home use. YouTuber MagmaBow is trying to change that. He built a pick-and-place machine that does the job of million-dollar manufacturing equipment. However, MagmaBow’s creation...
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