Now, we have cheap PCBs, toaster-based solder ovens, and everything else to make cheap finished boards except for pick and place machines ... to suck parts out of a reel and spit them down ...
He’s the designer of the LumenPNP open-source pick-and-place machine ... In short, Z-tape is not a good fit for the PNP machine. But what [Stephen] does find works well is a graphite-based ...