Carbide Labs Pick n' Paste was a product that we developed to bring industrial assembly capability to the consumer/hobby desktop market. We hoped to add a tool to the wave of machines that were being developed for the prosumer market in 2012. The machine in its final state was a working prototype with motion control and machine vison; however it never made it to market. 

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Pick n' Paste Features: 

• Custom Core XY motion system 
  • 5 Degrees of Freedom (X,Y, Z1, Z2, A) 
• Two actuated heads:
  • Paste dispenser
  • Rotary vacuum pick head
• Dual vison cameras 
  • Downward camera - Board Position
  • Upward camera - part position adjustment 
• Steel bed with Magnetic holders 
  • Board holder 
  • Component tape holders 
• Linux CNC Branch developed for project

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Mechanical Design: 
The Core XY frame was designed custom for our application. Sheet material was cut using water jet and all other components where machined with a CNC machine. 

Features: 

• Linear ball bearings and ground rods
• Dual multi-start lead screws 
• Stepper motor and timing belt system 
• Software: Autodesk Inventor, HSMWorks CAM 
• Machines: OMAX Water Jet, Haas VF2 CNC Mill, JET Lathe

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Vision System: 
The Pick n' Paste system had duel cameras for real time circuit board fluidical location and component position and angle offsets
Features: 

• Dual rear illuminated cameras 
• Pick head designed to use Fuji nozzles for optimized background contrast 
• Vison software developed in OpenCV 

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The Pick n' Paste machine was featured by Hackaday.com during the 2014 Makerfaire in New York. Video include interview and machine demo.
Article: hackaday.com/2014/09/24/pick-and-place-machines-at-maker-faire/