Some jigs you have to build yourself

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[@der.Schtefan]

Your 5x10 carrier PCB can be outfitted with 5 programming ports that have traces running to the eeproms. Those traces run through the snap-off points. Each eeprom has it's individual chip select line. so on the side you'd connect a 4+10 pin contact, which in turn programms each eeprom, and then you'd snap that row off, continuing to the next one. You can save contacts / ports, by sharing between rows and overwriting the programming each time you snap off a row above. You can save more by coming up with a matrix solution. The carrier PCB would need to have a larger border for this to work. Both on the outside as well as probably within the rows.

[@OscarSommerbo]

To me, it is a little endearing that Stephen still has his old headphones (with the 3d-printed repair) after all these years.

[@TheMrAwax]

Do a double success beep every 5 item.

[@kd8gby]

Now all you need to do is frankenstein this thing onto one of the PnP machines so someone doesn't need to sit there programming every one of them.

[@JaredJennings-hp3zt]

Great! Ideas: 1. angle the pogo pins for comfort and visibility. 2. make it so the switch engages by pressing against the number pcb.

[@aminecraftnerd1920]

You won’t remember me, but I was a kid with a backpack who met you at Open Sauce. You were such a nice and genuine guy, and you definitely earned a subscriber. I can’t wait to see what you do next!

[@dylandailey3191]

Probably a little late to suggest this, but TagConnect has some nice pre-made pogo pin connectors that could work in place of your custom solution. Also, pretty please, build AOI functionality into your PNP machine! I would kill to have my PNP take pictures of components after assembly and compare against a "golden standard" image to automatically find missing/misplaced components, etc. Even if it just saved each image to a big database for our recordkeeping purposes, that'd be swell.

[@ericlotze7724]

Although a bit less modular than Ben Veltman’s idea of a PnP Toolhead for stuff like this, i LOVE the idea of this.

[@Edward-pw6zz]

i always like to see progress on a project, awesome video!

[@ericlotze7724]

6:25

[@Vectole]

Cool project! I'm also using the same display for one of my university projects, the library I'm using not only takes up a bit of space, but also takes a while to process and since the device I'm making is a control device with outputs dependent on ADC reading, I can see a lag in output at display refresh rate. I solved it by moving it to the second core of the MCU I'm using. We really take graphics, even simple ones, for granted on our everyday devices so it's always good to keep in mind this stuff really affects the performance of our low power MCUs!

[@dstensnes]

@StephenHawes: Idea. Maybe you can make a small adapter that you can fit on a pick-n-place machine, so that can push the proper pins at the right spot, then program, and move to the next part of the board? Maybe a customized pick-n-place machine for this?

[@jix177]

Great project! Well done.

[@ericblenner-hassett3945]

The pointer connectors look to be a total of 6 wires so either 2x3 connectors or one 6 wire would be better ( depending what you need already, always use ' common ' parts ). Either way, you could also keep them as ' bodge wire ' to the mainboard to allow for trying side by side or one over the other for connecting the pins. There may be enough space to ' pulse ' one of the leftover IO lines at a set frequency for part of a second, and no sound if failed for the audio conformation of programming, alternatively to an actual tone is there are piezo buzzers out there that just need power that would do it when a pin goes high ( and make sure you have that pin internally pulled down or wired as such ). Keep up the amazing work!

[@Excalibur32]

Love your work, thanks as always for sharing

[@wayne_taylor]

Just come across your channel. Subbed. Love your enthusiasm

[@shazam6274]

Genius! Excellent attitude toward solving problems in manufacturing. But... you forgot to put a link for the actual product: Lumen!

[@AudioStorm]

Love this so much! I really appreciate the incremental nature of developing specialist tools: I too have a machine with a binary display because I rushed making it! (it cuts wires). And at some point I will improve it (like you have yours) and improve it again no doubt but getting products out of the door with 'good enough' tools is always the priority. (Also my feeders from you are on the way and I can't wait to try them out, keep up the excellent work!)

[@iDoPew]

Awesome! Got something quite similar for a project of mine. No button on it, just always tries to program until it sucessfully does then it waits blinks for a second.

[@jamesbrown99991]

Alternatively, you could set the slot address with a resistor, rather than having to program an eeprom. Or a number of resistors and solder bridges allowing setting the address using a soldering iron.