Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Robotic Arm

Hi Jon,

Good choice. I received my Pick and place machine a couple of weeks ago.
It is a Yamaha YM-84, commonly known in the USA as a Philips CSM-84.

It came with about 50 feedersas well. I've already run out of feeder slots
on the machine. It has 3 heads (0.7mm, 2mm and one about 4-5mm. It also
has a pneumatic centering station plus an upwards looking centering vision
camera. Plus a tray freeder

Ran off a handful of ModIO panels and a DigiSpeed panel over the weekend.
It's quite a fun machine to use.

One of the thinks I need to make is a number of waffle trays to hold
various components. One of them is the power inductor for the ModIO power
supply. I purchase a part reel without the reel and the tape is all
cracked up. Iplan to use some 4mm perspex to mill an array of pockets to
suit the inductor. I'll draw it up in Autocad and use sheetcam to do the
nesting array and produce the G-Code.

I've had a days training on it, and it is now productive.

Cheers,

Peter.

Jon Elson wrote:

> roboticscnc wrote:
>> Hi Group,
>> Has anyone built a robotic arm for pick & place ?
>> Is it possible to teach ( digitize ? ) Mach 3 to control one ?
>> Could a conversion ( Macro ? ) be used to generate X,Y,Z positions
>> from X,Y,Z co-ordinates in G Code ?
>> I've looked around for different software ( EMC, etc. ) but can't find
>> much info for home built machines. I've been using Mach 3 for a while
>> so this helps with the learning curve but eventually it will be asked
>> to do a routine from a PLC, in which case linux may be a better choice ?
> I have a Philips CSM-84 arriving tomorrow. I have thought about
> building one, and had a pretty good idea how EMC could do almost
> everything. The one thing that I couldn't figure out was how to
> integrate a fiducial camera with EMC. Also, if you want
> on-the-fly optical alignment, I couldn't really figure that either.
>
> I had pretty much planned out how to take a file with component
> & feeder locations and another file with part placement data and
> generate the G-code to run a simple machine.
>
> My machine is 5' x 7' and weighs 1600 Lbs or so. I got the
> electronic guts of another (compatible) machine, plus 50
> feeders, plus a vibratory feeder base. There is a program that
> can use CAD data to set up the machine. The guy who sold it to
> me said he never used it, he just uses the teach camera.
>
> If you haven't communicated with Nicholas Benezan, he has built
> a complete machine himself. It has one head, changeable nozzles
> and alignment fingers. It is working. He was working on
> automatic feeders as the next project.
>
> Jon
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