You and your pick & place

Want to: Make electronic goods at home? Place 0201's with ease? Impress your friends? Then a pick and place may be for you!

This wiki is primarily about the MDC 7722FV (7722 with Flying Vision) and Autotronik 383 & 384 pick and place machines, but may have useful information for others. That being said, we give no guarantees about any information stated within.

• Purchasing a pick and place - how broke you'll be after the fact
• Machine options - add ons & extras
• Accessories - All the other stuff you'll need
• Setting up - 'Unboxing' and initial set up
• Feeders - How to use the feeders
• Tubes - How to use tubes
• Tray - How to use the tray
• Operating the MDC - Getting it running!
• Troubleshooting - also known as "a list of things that went wrong for us"
• Docs and Downloads - Files, manuals, etc

• Bottom vision test - Testing the part's definition with bottom vision (known as Shift-P test)
• Partial Assembly - Testing the part's definition and placement (known as a F6 or 'partial assembly' test)
• QFN/TDFN/LGA - How to define leadless parts
• Part definitions - for common parts
• Fiducials - our friend, the fiducial

• Jellybeans - The most common parts, cheap!