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!
• Tips - and tricks with your p&p (or even hand-placing!)

• DIY tray - Make your own tray holder!
• Closed Loop vision - Slower but more precise vision control

We celebrated an Early Christmas here at Sparkfun, thanks to the speedy delivery of our much needed second Pick and Place. As we work to push both machines to capacity, we're trying to find time to share some of our experience with you. Bear with us; we'll keep on adding more as we find more time and think of other helpful or cool information to 'wikify'.

• Sparkfun's Pick and Place Machines - Information about the Pick and Place machines used by Sparkfun Electronics (wiki under construction)
• Testimonials - Read what Sparkfun machine operators have to say about Manncorp Pick and Place products and service.
• General Specifications and Costs - A brief overview
• Photos - A few shots of our two machine's and their hardworking operators
• Manuals and Documentation - The 'official' Manncorp help file/manual for operation and maintenance… Also posted here is a training manual I developed for getting our new people up to speed.
• Manncorp's pdf Brochure for the Autotronik MC Series of pick and place and stencil machines

We just purchased an MC385V2V from MannCorp to begin our assembly of Arduino-compatible animal tags here at Loggerhead Instruments. This wiki has been extremely helpful to us, so we thought we'd add our experiences. The V2V is the same as V1, but with two placement heads.

* MC385V2V -

• Forum - Chat about small/hobbyist pick & place machines on the Adafruit forums

This is a collaborative project. Please post questions to the Forum, and useful information into the wiki. Thanks!