The flashing and testing machine. current estimate is about 2h for this tray. Will try to make it faster, although flashing itself is the longest single operation. The robot could definitely move much faster.

that gripper is awesome

The key is in the spring convert displacement into torque/force

yeah, it's clever 🦾

Such a good implementation.

Brother yes

I just realized that's a 3D printer. How the hell did you get manual control over it? Many kudos.

Wooowww... Your scaling up the production 👏👏👏 Amazing...

Thats pretty slick. If flashing is the main issue, what if you added extra flashing rigs to do them in parallel.

Oh, or maybe mod the arm to grab two at once side by side and stages them together they both flash in the same span of time and get put away

What is this 3d printed awesomnes??

Its flashing and testing this:

Autofactory FTW

Damn that's awesome! Would love you to a video explaining it all!

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🤯 this is so cool!

Easiest speed improvements would be doubling or tripling the flash/test quantity and putting the mechanisms in the tool head so that you can avoid the travel distance on every motion.

That was the first one. Just logo pins on the print head. But THE cards had to be flat And the capacity was much lower. But looking back it would be simpler. Would just need to add some digital micrometer for thickness.

I'm still thinking about this! How did you come up with it? Any inspo?

For this one not really. initially i’ve sketched up a separate dedicated machine, but then decided to go with THE 3d printer. I use THE same printer for other parts of the process too. the gripper is also an evolution from another process.

Wow this is honestly so cool. Well done man

Give it less than a year before @realwillreil has a setup like this

BROOO WHATTTTT

I'm going to need something like this some day

It's an A1 mini with some parts printed on another A1 Mini (except for the large under tray which was printed on P1S)

Its beautiful.

This is impressive AF! The compliant mechanisms involved, the simplicity…it’s beautiful !

The good thing is that you can just reprint ;) notice anything missing?

@grinich Something for your office? :)

@grinich this is the “factory” corner.

Parallelize it so your moving and placing while flashing

This is incredible!

wait until i remove half of this stuff to make it more reliable (sametimes fails to pickup) :) i’ll look less cool. but should work better

what the hell this is crazy

Whole thing just 3d printed ? That’s pretty awesome

Add 2 dumb cache slots, so you have 3 in a row, only middle active: pre-flash - flashing - flashed. Move flashing to flashed. Move pre-flash to flashing. Start flashing, meanwhile move flashed to tray, next blank to pre-flash.

Can you elaborate? Why?

Concurrency. Currently you have two distinct, lengthy phases: swap board, flash board. With the cache slots, you'll do most of swapping board while another is being flashed, only small, short moves between the cache slots impinging upon flash time.

A better, but far more complex and expensive alternative would be to add a second flashing station. Swap board in one while the other is flashing. The "cache" is 2 small plastic slots attached to the flashing station + some extra arm moves, zilch cost.

hey boss can i dm u for some design feedback? i really like the product i just thought there are some way to make it better

yes please

dmed!

So cool!!! Now THIS is some content that is worth the follow 🔥

awesome work man