SMALLSMT PANDA Design Contest

Our new pick and place machine for the entry into SMD placement is called PANDA. This machine is based on a belt driven XY system and is offered in 3 versions.
In the Basic version, an external Windows PC is required for control, which is connected to it via Ethernet/USB.
Our PANDA Pro has optional internal industrial PC.
The machines has Z-axis sensor for measuring the pick-up heights and 0.01mm X/Y resolution.

All feeders are created from durable aluminium rather than printed plastic. We have built in push feeders on 3 sides with 43x8mm, 19x 12mm, 9x 16mm and 2x24mm lines.

Any tray can be mounted in the work area and depending on the PCB size, other software defined feeders can also be set up.

3 cameras with 640x480mm resolution are installed.
The 2x bottom cameras have different optics that can align components up to 30x30mm.

PCB size 300x300mm possible and if JEDEC Tray installed 300x170mm left.

- porting open source motion controller source code to our STM32 controller board and keep it open source
- do all additional steps to get the machine operating using OpenPNP software
- add bootloader for firmware updates we already use a custom bootloader

Fill in your information and send to us.

We will contact each person / group and discuss the steps.

One person / group will receive the free PANDA BASIC machine to do the design steps.

We make a contract to define the time frame and the final goal we like to reach.

All technical informations and Test PCB will be provided.

We do the technical support too.

This web page will be updated for more informations soon.

We have found 2 nice and smart developers to write an OpenPNP compatible firmware for our V3 controller. This makes our most modern entry-level machine compatible with open source PC software.
If everything goes well, we will have a working system by the end of the year.

Thanks to Sören and Markus.

Good news: Sören and Markus have gotten the first steps with OpenPNP up and running.

Some open issues still need to be resolved, e.g. the implementation of the push feeder in OpenPNP.

The firmware still needs more testing and debugging, but they are doing a good job!
We hope to present a working solution in Q1.
Every Panda machine can be operated with OpenPNP and our V2 software by updating the main controller.