I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot

Re:I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot by skholinn on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:07AM (#47573210)

thanks! how often do you have to do it by hand and how long does it take it?

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Re:I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot by Ccecil on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:50PM (#47576713)

I am not the poster...but I can say for things like the A4982 stepper drivers it would take me about 1-2min/chip to do it by hand with hot air with a preheater. [1]

In one particular case where we had a BOM mixup on a batch of 500 boards @5 chips per board this would have saved me a ton of time. I did 2500 chip swaps by hand...

If you need any help with the project let me know. This is something I would love to help develop hardware for.

[1] https://youtu.be/rZCczA-PX5w?si=_BPojbLMsTLjsDCw

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Re:I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot by girvo on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:00PM (#47580248)

Rarely! But it takes me a few minutes per component, sometimes more because I'm quite bad at electronics and always afraid of damaging things haha

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