SO GLAD you're covering Opulo! Stephen is a wonderful human and that project is incredible!

Thanks for sharing the project Tom! We're really excited about what the LumenPnP can do, and incredibly grateful to the wonderful community that has helped get it there.

Great to see this project getting recognized.

OMG, That young man’s enthusiasm is so contagious 👍👍

This is probably the best presentation out of errf

This guy is such an awesome communicator. Amazing skills.

I have ZERO interest in making a PNP machine, but Stephen's videos are SO good I watch every one of them!!!

I am glad to be part of the Opulo community! There are so many fantastic minds working together, sharing their mods and suggestions for this machine. Stephen and his team take the “truly” open-source aspect very seriously. It is great to see this project being recognized.

I spoke with Stephen at ERRF, he is an incredible person who is obviously very passionate about his project. It was great speaking with Stephen as his knowledge on this in incredible. Very well explained and an awesome project. I hope their company does very well. Maybe someday I will take him up on his offer to come visit their office! haha

Opulo just so cool and it’s been fantastic seeing it come together. Stephen is so enthusiastic and I’m grateful for all the work he and his team is doing!

Opulo is an opensource company that I'm glad is being highlighted here. Thanks!

This is super cool. And I really appreciate you making it open source. We need more engineers like you guys.

I normally and am not fond of these types of presentation videos. This video had me enthralled the entire time. This guy is a great presenter and really knows his material. On top of all that Pennsylvania represents! I actually commented out loud when he mentioned it ran on Marlin. Good job, guys!!

Been watch Stephen for a couple of years now back when he was frustrated hand building his glow-tie's and decided to build his own pick-n-place machine just to automate that.... Its so good to see him at this point with a product! Keep going Stephen!

I work on pick-and-place and flip-chip bonding machines in the semiconductor industry and it's super awesome to see this kind of tech making it's way to the enthusiast space. Awesome work guys, keep it up!

Just absolutely awesome. I am surprised & yet not surprised this exists. The open source maker community is wicked. This is such a game changer. Now if I only had need to make one.

That system is SO impressive! It was definitely one of the top 3 things I saw at ERRF. Thanks for taking the time to get some a thorough review up for us to see!

These guys are amazing! I'm coming up on 50 really soon, and things have changed so much in my lifetime and career. I've worked as an electronic tech / designer / pcb layout guy, and we would have loved to have (couldn't have imagined, really) the technologies that are being made available open-source. I'm considering opening my own consumer electronics company, and this tech will probably make it possible to do so, as I fall right into that mid-volume area. Now we only need an environmentally safe way to make prototype or production boards in-house. I am hoping that additive technology might be created in the near future to do just that.

Nice to see the Opulo on this channel. I'd like to make my own PCB at least once in my life, but as a mechanical engineer the odds of me ever having any sort of use for a pick and place is very slim, but I love watching his videos and following their progress.

I've been following this project for so long. It's amazing how it keeps evolving

damn i love hearing smart people talk about things i dont understand but they can communicate in a language i understand. Great video, hope you share more of these new interesting vendors with amazing ideas!

I have watched this guy's videos for a while. It is nice to see he got to a RepRap fesitval.

This man loves his work! Great project and really nice they stick to the reprap spirit

Why didn't you link his KZfaq channel? Lots of videos about the development of LumenPNP on there

I work for a company that builds very fast and very accurate placement machines but I still find this to be awesome!

I looked into building my own pick and place machine, but in the end my time is worth more than the time it would take to build and load one. My commercial PNP that holds 27 different reels was only $3500 purchased from China and runs at 20 times the speed of this unit. I do enjoy people that innovate, and this system is really neat. Machine vision is not necessary if the system is built with tight specs. A slight misalignment is tolerable because the component will straighten itself out during reflow.

I've been following Stephen's channel almost since day one - so exciting to see what he has accomplished

His enthusiasm is great. This is a project that I didn't know we needed, but once you see it you understand how it could change the way small companies make boards. ERRF had so many fantastic products, I just didn't understand how innovate many were. Thanks for showing this in the detail you did.

I love how excited he gets at the idea that people are using the machine! Super cool

It’s been really awesome to watch this project mature over the last few years. Going from a simple idea to a full-fledged open-source product. A+ Opulo team for making this, and Thomas you made an excellent video covering it!

Good old Steve... he handed you brilliant video content to edit together there! Wonderful team, amazing product! 👏🏻

I love his enthusiasm

I know very little of all the advanced terms he uses but I really love how excited he seems when talking about the machine

Great stuff. Awesome that people are doing this kind of work and open scource. Bravo 👏👏👏

Didn't notice you made a video on it. I've been glued to Stephen's channel for a while! (I DO NOT need a pnp, I just love to follow all the steps and improvements of the product and the company)

Look how far he (and the team!) have come! Amazing to see the progress of all this.

Awesome video! Stephen does a great job talking about the machine. Been following the dev for a few years now and really happy to have seen it in person!

Awesome project, been following Stephen's channel for a while, and hoping one day I'll have a need for something like this.

Amazing! This is glorious, we live in best timeline!

This is extremely interesting to me! I may soon be in the exact segment of production he mentions in the video.

I will definitely build one of these! Very nice project, thanks for sharing guys❤️🔥

I've been following this project for a while. There's a KZfaq channel where you can follow the whole development process. It's pretty cool!

This guy’s s passion is off the charts! Amazing!

amazing project stephen! thanks tom

Been watching Stephen's YT channel for years. Such a smart dude and you can tell he's really into what he's doing. You should check him out.

Great project, Stephen is super passionate about it - awesome energy.

SO cool! I have been watching Stephens video from jan 2020 multiple times just because he is so damn inspiring! Great to see that this project are still evolving and have now been a full develop product! So inspiring and cool!!

what an awesome setup.

Following the LumenPNP for a long time, awesome to see it get even more recognition out here! That said did really think about the 3d printing vs the machine vision work they did until he mentioned it, but I wonder if incorperating that machine vision work into 3d printing would be a good way to do mixed part work. I.E. printer ontop of an existing structure like the LumenPNP does for adding parts on top of an existing thing.

Wow. This is so cool!

Nice guy, well spoken and clearly very intelligent, with an open project. Wish him the best!

That's crazy amazing

Hey Thomas, you need to tell JLCPCB to create Hawaiian shirts too.

My lumen just started its first board. Besides the pain with the strip feeders.... That thing is just awesome

Such a cool project. Team these guys with Ant CNC and you can almost have a full PCB manufacturing setup.

This is a super cool idea that I can't in any way use lol. But it makes me wish that I DID do this kind of thing because it's such a fascinating product!

It's always a joy to see Stephen's energy.. He mentioned he has played around with enough 3d printers, but he didn't mention he was once working for FormLabs!

Awesome! We have also posted our ERRF 2022 video.

Wow, what a passionate guy. I kinda want to get into making my own pcbs now, even though I'd have no way to use them & dont know anything about designing them!

Cool example of good open source development :)

It's a great project and worthy of our respect

Watched the whole series of Stephen developing this thing. So cool to see it in production and going to shows. :)

What a great product!!

Not sure whether I'm more impressed by the machine or his charisma.

AWESOME!

i love this system... in to pcb development at the moment, but ill get myself an Opulo as soon as possible

perfect, great machine; thanks for sharing :)👍

Very cool. Nice work.

This is just so cool

I really like that guy! Please make him famous

He's really proud of that, and he should be - on the point about where it fits in the market so to speak, seems to me you could easily scale that Prusa style and build a farm of them if you needed to.

its kind of amazing they can get any kind of thermal precision from a toaster oven, even one that is modified.

Pretty dope 🙌

I love this!

I just ordered one of these today.

dude and the project seem super cool

Nice detail with the dual head on a single Z motor.

this is really cool

Oho! Very timely information; this goes in my files for, I hope, the first half of next year, when if things go even vaguely as planned I should be setting up for small-scale SMT assembly. I'll be watching for the automated feeders, and for the maximum number of feeders possible (some of my likely designs have 60 or so line items on the BOM, because analog stuff tends to involve lots of different values). Be nice to have an open-source, domestically-produced board-stuffing machine.

I've never seen a pcb usb c connector like that, pretty clever.

Apparently I know for a fact I’m going to the next show because these are all awesome

This is really cool ...

Machine vision is one thing I hope does AND doesn't come to hobby 3D printing. It would be cool to have optical homing or things of that nature, but BOM lists are already so long haha Thanks for the convention coverage Tom!

This was an interesting style of editing for a video. Just sorta letting him do his whole pitch/ad on the channel. I follow their youtube channel as well, and they don't post often, but its some really interesting stuff. Lets you get a real view into some cooler but more niche makery type things. I appreciate that the barrier to entry for creating products is lowering all the time. I f only we could deal with all the red tape involving nefarious patents and the patent system.

Wow!

I have most of the parts and would love to explore this project in detail.

I hope they have decent funds. All open-source projects should get development grants for a lot of reasons.

Stuff Made Here's puzzle solving machine mustve come in handy with this project

Include his channel in the description of the video pls

it would be cool to adapt this to be a swappable head for a 3d printer with a system like WhamBam Mutant. I know that the control would probably need to outside the printer but it could be nice to use the same hardware

We have one at the office for our prototypes because there to hard to make by hand

Neat idea, wish them the best of luck. But the inability to reliably place 0402s is a dealbreaker.

Is there a list of all parts including the camaras, vaccuum pumps hollow shaft Nema11 motors and so on available. I want to build that machine by myself.

Even though it's open source (!= free), I always try to give some money anyway, hope he and the team have a coffee option. :) Oh wait, they have a shop, haha. Check

Great...

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I love seeing this. I have been watching his channel from the start of this journey with the pick and place through the name change and his struggle and building his custom control board. It's been fun and interesting to watch his stuff and I'm glad to see this. Link to his channel: kzfaq.info

Was there an USB-C PCB edge connector? Does someone have a drawing of that?

I personally probably don't need this (I want it, but that's a different matter), but I know SparkFun and Adafruit might be interested...

WANT!