Comments for About at http://freaklabs.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://freaklabs.org Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:56:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/about.html#comment-627 I think that is the wrong type of pick and place. It sounds like some type of process manufacturing equipment. A pick and place that I'm talking about shouldn't require a chiller and RF generator. - Akiba Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:44:19 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/about.html#comment-626 We have a Pick n Place for sale. It comes with a 4 foot indexer table that is anodized Al. It is Wiess equipment. It is all brand new. It also has a 400 KiloHertz 5000 watt RF generator with a Thermo Fischer chiller. This is also brand new. We built it to make solar cells in a high speed process. It is all located in Ft. Pierce Florida. Pictures are on our web site. - Lawrence Curtin Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:53:44 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/about.html#comment-617 Nice blog. If you're in Tokyo and into hardware hacking, you should check out Tokyo Hackerspace (www.tokyohackerspace.org). Good fun for geeks. - Akiba Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:09:47 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/about.html#comment-611 Anything and everything you do seems to be very very interesting. I'm an electronics engineer (from India) working in Japan. Good to know people like you exist in this country. While in college I used to do a lot of weird stuff with Atmel microcontrollers. e.g. http://www.fuzakeruna.com/blog/2009/09/line-tracing-robot/ If you're ever hiring lemme know. Would love to help out if I can find some free time. Ady - Ady Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:22:47 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/about.html#comment-514 Ha ha ha...I don't recommend buying them all at once. What you're seeing is an accumulation of effort over a few years. I'd suggest buying things slowly and looking for bargains on ebay or other used equipment sites. The pick and place isn't needed unless you're planning on making and selling boards. In that case, you'd be better of buying a small reflow oven which is much cheaper and getting solder paste stencils made. Assembling by hand is not too bad and if things start going well, you'll know that its time to buy a pick and place. Otherwise, if you have about $10k burning your pocket and you want to make wireless devices, I'd recommend the network analyzer. The CNC machine is really handy, but you can survive by just having your boards fabbed at Olimex or GoldPhoenix. The only exception is for RF boards where there's a lot of trial and error involved on the hardware side. - Akiba Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:14:08 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/about.html#comment-513 Hi Akiba, thank you for your reply. I wonder how I could ever afford those machines. Did you buy all this stuff as a hobbyist or do you run a small company? I hope that can at least afford a few things when I am a retired person in 30 years. ;-) Best Regards, Christian - Christian Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:57:43 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/about.html#comment-509 Damn...somebody gave me a negative vote on my comments... >:( - Akiba Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:31:35 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/about.html#comment-440 The desktop pick and place cost about $20k and its manufactured by a local company in Japan that is luckily near my apartment. Hence I got a lot of training and free shipping and installation. The company is called MDC and its website is here. It's a bit ugly tho... http://www.mdc-smt.co.jp/ The network analyzer was a used machine I picked up off of ebay and it cost about $6k including the s-parameter test set. You'll also need to spend an additional $1-2k to pick up a calibration kit since you'll need to calibrate the system before you run any testing on your RF circuit. I guess this kind of takes things out of the realm of hobbyist design... - Akiba Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:42:29 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/about.html#comment-437 Hi Akiba, how much does the pick-n-place machine cost? What brand is it? How much does the network analyzer cost? Thanks, Christian - Christian Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:41:18 +0100