Hi everyone!
In this topic I want to share my work on building a DIY Pick-and-Place-Machine. But none of those ordinary DIY-ones, the end-goal is building a Machine on industrial level, complete with Software and open-source hardware.
General Specifications:Target would be around 120-240 Components per Minute on an 8-Spindel, rotating Placement-Head.
Accuracy up to 4um, full Software Vision System for part detection up to 0201.
Carbon Y-Axis, Servo-Driven.
Build-Space 400x600mm, 50 Feeders, automatic Tray-Feeders, and so on.
Open source:Hardware and Software will be under CC-BY-SA, however with the exclusion of 'selling' the Software (a Programmer got to live from something

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The Software:Will be posted to Github as soon as it is presentable, as of now it is a lot of Proof-Of-Concept glued together.
The software is written in a Java-Frontend with Open-Computer-Vision and OpenGL backends.
In General it is build to fix some issues I had with OpenPNP.
Just a Disclaimer: I am working around 1.5 years on all of it... and am still not very far. So don't expect it to go anywhere quickly

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Of cause I'm happy to answer Your questions and follow Ideas given!
Images: My Software detecting a Part and the Carbon-Fiber Y-Axis (Still in the making ofc.)