Probably the cheapest powered vacuum pump on the market right now is
the Reynolds Handi-Vac that's used with vacuum sandwich bags. You
can pick them up for around $10. It wouldn't be hard to set up an
I/O pin to turn on/off the vacuum source.
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Symansky" <symansky@...>
wrote:
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> Oops, I retract my statement: the above would work for just the
solder
> dispenser. You're right, you'll probably need some sort of vacuum
pump for
> the pick-and-place machine. It can't be that difficult, though:
the vacuum
> needed to pick up one of those parts must be incredibly small. You
could
> probably even have the Z-axis stepper pull the plunger on a syringe
to
> create the vacuum to lift the part.
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