My New Pick & Place Machine [Liteplacer]

This video shows the whole story of my new Pick & Place machine from the beginnings building the kit, until now when I got my production running.
LitePlacer Kit:
With the code "Bitluni05" you get 5% off
link.bitluni.net/liteplacer
(Updates on possible shipping restrictions: www.liteplacer.com/shop20/ )
Check out Aaaron's channel: / @atc1441
All live streams playlist:
• LIVE: LitePlacer Kit A...
3D printed Tray:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:427...
Links to parts and tools (affiliate links):
Long Torx Set:
aliexpress.bitluni.net/looooo...
Thermally Stable Solder Paste:
link.bitluni.net/chipQuick
Links to the parts and tools (affiliate links):
4 Channel Mosfet Switch:
aliexpress.bitluni.net/4chMosfet
24V Power Supply (fanless):
aliexpress.bitluni.net/24Vpsu
Crappy Reflow Oven:
ebay.bitluni.net/crapReflowOven
Set of Tweezers:
aliexpress.bitluni.net/tweezers
Ultrasonic Cleaner:
aliexpress.bitluni.net/cleaner
My camera and lens (4k 60fps):
amazon.bitluni.net/gh5
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Discord: / discord
Music:
Jeremy Blake - Powerup!
Andrew Langdon - Follow Me
Dan Henig - Orange Foot
Andrew Langdon - Keys
#electronics #maker #picknplace

[@xanderstuff7]

I have never made a PCB in my life, but I want one of these machines!

[@Amit-sp4qm]

Welcome to the club 😁😁

[@tass2001]

I have hand soldered dozens and I would love this thing.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

11:05 now all you need is a machine to place those chips in the tray

[@Mauricetz]

Then he need a machine to buy those chips and arrive them from China

[@HDestroyer787]

@@Mauricetz Then he also need a machine that makes those chips in china so he can buy them

[@nrdesign1991]

I was there when it finally happened! So glad you could share that moment with us.

[@maicod]

I've watched quite a lot of this progress Live but it is nice to see the whole experience in one nicely edited video. Also amazed you had overview camera's running all the time.

[@lmamakos]

What perfect timing to tempt me. Just a few days ago, I was hunched over my workbench with tweezers and a stereo microscope placing teeny-tiny components. Just thinking, this would be way easier to have a PnP machine do this for me. Of course, I'm not making boards in quantity, so I could spend a lot of effort getting a PnP machine built and running to "save time." Thanks for the video!

[@spinjector]

Omg I need this. Your videos are awesome, and besides I always learn something, I really enjoy the musical selections. Minimal & chill.

[@ChatterontheWire]

Very cool, good luck with some upgrades and thanks for sharing!

[@qzorn4440]

that machine literally opens new doors of ideas. thanks. :)

[@BRUXXUS]

I just discovered your channel, and I'm so glad I did! From the few videos I've seen so far, it's wonderful. 😀

[@philiperrendesign8362]

Coole Videos! Macht Spaß die Maschine in Action zu sehen!

[@rizen3467]

7:17 excited german noises 😂

[@womacko]

Funny how you start explaining what this machine is about, nearly to the end of the video! Delicious! :D

[@avejst]

Great walk-through Great project Thanks for sharing 👍😁

[@ChunkySteveo]

Great recap video Bitluni! I have no need for a PNP, but seeing yours and Seon's - my life feels empty without one now!! haha

[@Johnsmith-wh1sx]

This is amazing I did not know that this was possible on the cheap thank you

[@leftovercode]

Mindblowing. Wow. Well done

[@Aleksey_777]

super! when I was working as a Board component installer, I wanted to build a place machine like this but now I'm a system administrator))

[@brianbrewster6532]

Humorous highlight@ 6:09. I would've liked to have seen Young Frankenstein clip, "It's alive!!" used @ 7:02. I thoroughly enjoy these videos. You are a master builder, not just for your prowess mechanically, sir, but your electronics knowledge. I was introduced to pick-n-place machines used ubiquitously in Boulder Colorado some three decades ago. Incredible technology. Didn't know these had dropped so much in price they are now affordable to a homeowner. I sure hope the blood, sweat & tears was worth it for this massive build, Mr. Bitluni, and you reap untold profits from your small manufacturing endeavor.

[@chriswendi]

Awesome! Still have my lite placer in the box. My next project, very helpful thanks for sharing

[@bitluni]

Maybe the right time to unpack this toy

[@pentachronic]

Very cool. The volumes I deal with need to use the Fuji machines but it's great to see something for small shops available too.

[@andymouse]

Great stuff Mr B !

[@dgretlein]

Very, very, cool. Thanks for sharing!!

[@AJB2K3]

Glad its all working now

[@metalazzo]

Wow, it's great ! I'm almost jaleous. Nice job !

[@MaxintRD]

7:10 - Louis would be proud off how much flux you use. But that colour? Interesting... Nice video. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on this successful build of your PnP machine. +1

[@bitluni]

it's just a proper amount. thanks for your robust comment

[@MrEwilliams2]

Great video on your accomplishments. I really enjoy watching your lab improve and produce popular boards like your camp_prog. I am a lucky recipient of 2 of these boards and they work really well. Thanks!

[@herantd]

Nice! Now you could upgrade it with some nice enclosure as well as transporting rail which could ship pcbs right into reflow oven

[@ManuKrishnanmagz]

Superb work man

[@Error42_]

I found your channel during your very very very very long live stream. Nice to see what went into this, I don't need one but I do want one :-)

[@atc1441]

Nice summary of the build!

[@bitluni]

Thanks for the help :-)

[@RinksRides]

I found it interesting is an understatement!

[@jontech_Lab]

I'm always inspired by Bitluni,this man is a genius and he's contributing a lot to all electronic engineers all over the world,i can't wait to see him building a large factory"May God help

[@powerupminion]

I would love to see a timelapse of your pick & placer just working away.

[@BenjaminEggerstedt]

Thank you for the nice video and congratulations 🎊 🎉 for making it work (including your recovery 🚑)! I guess you have a larger stencil for the PCB that holds all your individual PCBs (as it comes from JLCPCB) to put the solder paste? Very fascinating to watch! Thanks to the steak, I‘m now starving for breakfast 🥞 😅

[@MrWaalkman]

@5:38 when I saw the bag of parts, I said "Nooooo!" Great to see that you were able to fix it. :) Excellent video, too! I've got a T-Tech Quick Circuit 6000 that I picked up off of eBay for $650. It's lacking pick and place, but maybe not for long... :)

[@ajayvaidya6538]

Great brother 👍 Nice work done.

[@headrobotics]

Very cool mini factory setup :)

[@williamhanna5224]

Nice work !

[@cdyoutoob]

OpenPNP! Second pickup head! Cast aluminium feeders! Great video

[@circuitsandcigars1278]

I was actually lucky enough to have helped build a pick and place in the 1980's. Even got to wirewrap a bunch of boards

[@jorgefernandez4812]

wow, that is really amazing

[@oly463]

Great video thanks for sharing. If you go Open PNP which is excellent by the way . Make sure you go Open PNP 2 not 1 otherwise later on you will have to convert settings.

[@MkmeOrg]

Extremely well done Bud. That was fun to watch. Glad you got it sorted!

[@faamp]

Inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

[@W_87]

Good Job! Nice Machine!

[@cwrigh13]

This is amazing.

[@stellablaze7979]

That outro was flipping lovely, the synced audio, goddamn

[@ahmedesmat6005]

A good machine helps to solve many problems that we met in small electronic circuits

[@kroome8]

wow!!! home made pick and place machine...GREAT !!! ... i just remember vintage manual DIE ATTACH and WIRE BONDING machines of one of the SEMICON factory i worked... :) :)

[@gioraver]

i want feel soon such felling when the first component has been placed . Very enjoyliable video

[@JaapioNL]

Well done!

[@hermannpaschulke1583]

Fiducials! Now I finally know how those things are called and what they are for :D I've been wondering that for YEARS, but apparently my googling skillz are too bad to find that on my own. Thanks! And btw: great Video as always. This machine is awsome

[@MD_Builds]

I REALLY want one :o Got a really fiddly project coming where this would be super useful

[@oliverer3]

never seen green flux before, cool!

[@NorthernEwan]

The body diode in a mosfet doesn’t protect it against inductive flyback voltages. A discreet flyback diode (or freewheeling diode) needs to be placed (reverse biased) between drain and supply - assuming you are low side switching that pump.

[@ELNUEVOLL]

Wow... muy buen trabajo. Me gusta tu máquina.

[@davestech6357]

I have to say that is really nice man.

[@H4ppyGoHeadshot]

OH MY GOD, you are a GOD!!!

[@abdelrahman5094]

amazing !!

[@MikeNugget]

Incredibleeeee

[@mahtabanwar4744]

I liked your project.

[@Manawyrm]

Awesome!

[@FikiFirmansyah]

NEXT level

[@tinkmarshino]

what a grand toy that would be!!

[@umargul5644]

Well done sir

[@BrianLough]

Every maker needs an Aaron

[@bitluni]

Pocket-Aaron

[@qwepoiqazplmzxcmnbqw]

I've been looking for vid like this, for so long. Thank you so much for making this. I really would like to see a video with a slightly more components, to demonstrate how effective this machine would be for a larger PCBs Guys in chat, can you like this comment, so he'll see the request for a larger, more complex pcb assembly montage pls 😀

[@hyperfluff_folf]

What exactly do you need in terms of information?

[@Bianchi77]

Cool project :)

[@dave_dennis]

You are my hero! I want to do this so badly. ( sorry for the odd English syntax ). I am inspired by you so I may try this myself. My girlfriend is going to kill me when I take over a bedroom in which to set this up. 😬. Here in Texas we have no basement in which do do such projects.

[@dleivam]

You said: "it's doing something..." I heard: "It's alive!" (like Frankenstein)

[@JS7457]

You really deserve more views and more subscibers !

[@ssj3mohan]

Its a very amazing machine.

[@randymoyer8370]

well made video learned alot

[@power-max]

You got off lucky! I was using an oscilloscope to measure the voltage on a 96V BLDC motor and made the classic "how NOT to blow up your oscilloscope" mistake and the surge went through the probe, into the oscilloscope, but rather than ground, I guess my plug was flaky, it went down the OTHER probe, to my board under test, into the USB port, into my $1500 laptop (killing it!), and through my power adapters to ground. Yes the power adapters connected the negative contact to earth ground. I took the laptop apart to repair it louis-rossman style, hoping it was just a blown fuse since the laptop simply didn't do anything. Found 1 PCB mount fuse that was blown and some random SOT23 package, but also a dead VRM on the CPU. I suspect the CPU saw a 12V spike on one if it's lower power rails, killing it, but I have no easy way to tell if it's alive or dead. I was able to get some sign of life by removing the shorted MOSFET and VRM but no POST screen or anything.

[@bitluni]

Oh man... that sounds terrifying. feeling really sorry you didn't have as much luck as I had.

[@PeetHobby]

Nice machine, a less expensive than most other compact "desktop" pick and place machines.

[@anthonyj777]

Excellent.

[@womacko]

5:19 I feel that scream... Happend to my MKS SBASE of my 3d pinter build. Fried the USB port xD

[@AndrewGillard]

I fried a MKS SBASE too! :D I was trying to connect an endstop when the endstop's + and - wires brushed against each other very briefly and it totally blew up a little SC70 component that I think is a level shifter. Left a surprisingly large skid mark! 😹

[@womacko]

I was able to replace the small SMD component and restore usb functionality. Switching to SKR v1.4 anyways. 😂

[@johnlee55555]

NICE! VERY NICE!!!

[@jesuscardona5184]

Amazing.

[@p_mouse8676]

Super nice. The correction of the component is actually sort of mandatory. I've worked with professional pick and place machines and you will be surprised how many components are just totally skewed in the reels. Sometimes even 180 degrees flipped. Normally this is done with a second steady camera, as a step between picking and placing. I was only wondering if you could go faster with this thing? Unless you're doing 100 boards, I don't really see a benefit vs placing thing yourself. All preparations considered. In fact, nowadays I just order them assembled even in small quantities.

[@vijayarajan-bt5fk]

அருமை வாழ்த்துக்கள்

[@dherrendoerfer]

That was really cool to watch .... and now I'm hungry ..

[@oxenforde]

11:35 I have built the exact-same unwind system. (I think everyone has built the exact-same unwind system. :-) ) Good work.

[@klausbrinck2137]

Oh please, everything else/better would be a total overkill, material- and designwise...

[@TheEmbeddedHobbyist]

Now you need the roll through reflow oven, and flying finger probe test set at the end and your be full auto.

[@bitluni]

and will it blend at the end :-D

[@DustinWatts]

This reminds me: I want a PnP machine! I have no need for it though, but it is so cool to watch. Nice build log. I saw a lot of it live and I hope the night shifts do not stop ;)

[@honzapat]

tru

[@bitluni]

night shifts will go on... so much on the table :-)

[@rzrbenke92]

12:38 You should create a program to use the hardware as an AOI - checking for polarities or extreme misplacement.

[@FrancoPN]

Very nice 👏👏👏

[@tz9976]

My life would be so much more difficult without the WAGO clamps 😂🙈 thanks!

[@Hobypyrocom]

created a smart home system with electric door locks, but when i unlock the door locks the whole system was restarting :) that was the point when i learned about the spikes that come from coils and the meaning and usage of fly-back diodes :) i lost whole week debugging and testing, was thinking it was my custom software problem :)

[@bitluni]

You are lucky nothing melted :-D

[@Hobypyrocom]

@@bitluni luckily the door locks were far away from the microcontroller and electronics, was controlling them using relay which has optic isolation i think...

[@DominicClifton]

Showing more of the OpenPNP setup/configuration would be useful.

[@xirtus]

I really wish I had a reason to build this, I really want one.

[@tonysfun]

You are very talented young man! Reminds me myself, when I was young.... I love your honesty and show the mistakes - we are just humans, not 100% perfect yet. Thank you for sharing your videos!

[@hansdietrich83]

Ok boomer

[@AndreasDelleske]

@@hansdietrich83 what is the problem?

[@donaldklopper]

Absolutely fascinating. Now I want one. But I guess I need to design my first board ... uh ... first. OK I'll wait for more videos. It feels like it's going to be cheaper. I'm so happy that you managed to sort out all the challenges, and thanks for sharing.

[@tonyhewett3729]

Oooooooh I want to make one!

[@coorfang426]

I really really enjoyed watching this episode. What's the liquid that you use for cleaning the boards?

[@QLTD]

I want one!

[@SidneyCritic]

Thanks for summarising that 10hrs, because I was never going to watch that. lol

[@isbestlizard]

I didn't know it was this easy to mass produce hundreds or thousands of a design yourself :O

[@Mr.Leeroy]

7:09 jeez, good luck cleaning that (:

[@certified-forklifter]

nice video!