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The kit has found a new home in a local hackerspace.

Unfortunately I do not have the time to work with our liteplacer anymore so I am hoping to give it into the hands of someone who can put it to good use. I put the liteplacer on a very solid 4cm thick black kitchen MDF plate. There are 4 table legs attached that can be take off for shipping. The Tiny...

Yeah, we're using your fiducial PNG, now. One issue is that it didn't seem that your published machine.xml had any fiducial-home stuff in it. Is that an old XML, or did you stop using the homing fiducial? The posted machine.xml does not include the homing fiducial as that might confuse people who d...

UPDATE : We did get the homing fiducial to work. It turns out that it can ONLY be a white (light) dot inside of a black (dark) area. I assume all fiducials are like that until the (potential) new update comes out with a fiducial pipeline. Correct, see: https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/Liteplacer_...

I recommend the Andonstar 2MP camera as top vision replacement: https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/Lite ... placements

Once the cable chains have been filled with all the cables going to the head the weight can lead to the first element of the chain giving way. We created a small 3d printable piece to put between the cable chain and the sheet metal to act as support structure for this first cable link element. To ma...

Just added non-squareness correction to openpnp: https://github.com/openpnp/openpnp/pull/446

I now got optical homing and the nozzle tip changer working with OpenPnP. Really interesting !! I would really like to get some more easy digestible information regarding OpenPnP on LitePlacer.. Did you or someone else collect the information somewhere - maybe even in a "step-by-step" gui...

I now got optical homing and the nozzle tip changer working with OpenPnP.

In my opinion the current approach to detect failed pick ups with the bottom vision camera is the way to go - all the hardware and software (not 100% in openpnp yet but its wip) to do that is already in place.