Index PnP Assembles Circuit Boards!

So awesome to have the Index actually do some useful work, populating ring lights for a batch of machines I'm assembling! I had confidence it would be able to do this based on previous validation tests, but to actually have it do the thing it's designed to do, full stack, feels incredible.

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[oswynfaux]

You can hack the toaster oven and create a reflow with the correct heating profile with a small controller, heat sensor, solid state relay

[christianhunt]

fantastic!!! it has been so cool to watch the project come together.

[samimaisniemi]

This looks very impressive. I have actually started to build one for small and mid scale manufacturing. At this moment I am printing 3D parts and I intend to order some other components tomorrow.

Thank you for everyone who have participated this wonderful project.

[zodakb]

Congrats to you and everyone working on this! This is so incredibly cool!

[bytesizedengineering]

Congrats Stephen on a job well done. You have put so much effort into this project! I'd love to build an index at some point!

[egerlachca]

Stephen, it's been awesome watching you go through this project over the last... I don't even know anymore. Congrats on this achievement!

[luccarodrigues]

okay this is epic

Seriously though, awesome work Stephen! Nice to see everything finally coming together.

[nicovosje]

Congrats!
Great to see the machine is coming togeter.
Love your video's, big inspiration for me!

Greetings from the Netherlands

[MicahMelnyk]

Looking good. When I have not had a stencil I have used a laser cutter with an overhead transparency... key is to lower the power to avoid getting rough melty edges.

[DominicClifton]

Would just like to say that you always want to get the paste on in a single wipe, use a firm blade and have the paste so that it rolls/tumbles on the blade as you wipe over the PCB. Use good pressure and around a 60 degree blade angle.

[Josefcnc]

Brilliant, well done mate nice to see it working

[markboler]

Awesome. Looking forward to a kit or a motherboard plus a list of materials.

[TheBarnett]

Very nice videography this update! The effort shows.

[michaelbishton]

I love the progress.
In a previous video you had feeders for the items and the PCB. This one didn't have them. Were the feeders designed for a previous PnP and don't work with this one, or did you just not use them?

[hardwareful]

No first iteration of a fixture has pockets for finger tips for part removal. Ever.

[nfast]

will there be a solder pate extruder on the pnp?

[oneil]

Why didn't use your feeder? And did the open PNP can dispense solder paste?
I really love your videos an especially your reaction when something worked 😁

[nkpplr]

Thanks for your hard work Steven, I think I might finally build one myself :)

[theoldknowledge]

Perfect 🙏🏻 Did you gave up on the automatic solder dispenser syringe?

[zulutime]

Nice video. But it reminds me to ask if there is already any progress in adding a solder paste dispener?