Watch Us Cook
We rigged up a web cam on the pick and place for the day. Take a look and see what we're building.
Check out what we're building on the pick and place machine at SparkFun!
Realize there's usually an amount of down time between builds, so please be patient. This morning was a break while the machine got broken down and cleaned. The cleaning process maintains the tolerances of the linear rails and placement capabilities. Cleaning takes about 30 minutes and is completed after every 40 hours of production use.
We'll let you guess as to what we're actually building at the moment. But here's today's build schedule to give you a hint.
We're not sure if this will be a permanent camera (let us know what you think) but we're trying to get the web cam setup for Stencil Class on this Wednesday. If we can get the broadcast working, we'll be on ustream.tv/channel/sparkfun-electronics-classroom.
Speaking of manufacturing environments; check out the new HotPot Potentiometers. These are ideal for industrial, high temperature, or outdoor environments, where our SoftPot Potentiometers would not survive.
In addition, we now sell the wiper/actuators that can be used to provide even pressure on the surface of all of our membrane potentiometers (both Hotpot Actuators and Softpot Actuators).
Oh yea, here is another weatherproof potentiometer called the MagnetoPot. Uses simple internal and external magnets for precise frictionless position measurements.
