Huh, I returned from 2 weeks holiday to find a my500 jet printer sat next to the pick and place machine!

It's not been commissioned yet and we haven't had the training course (you can't buy this sort of equipment from the manufacturer without going on a course!) on how to use it.

Rather disappointingly though, there appears to be no documentation on how to import data into the thing, so I suspect we'll have to do it by hand using the CAM software that's provided. Slightly irritating as I could provide all the information directly and automatically.

Will upload a video of it running a real world board once we're all setup.

New toy arriving too. We took a trip to belgium on wednesday to take a look at a vapor phase reflow oven.

Since we've switched to using stm32 processors we also switched to using BGA devices and we really need to make sure that the BGA solders nicely (seeing as we know the pasting is perfect).

Here's a time lapse video of vapor phase in action, particularly like the video at around 20 seconds in when the the paste goes to the liquidous state and the surface tension pulls the device to the centre!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnuRTMi53rw

Very cool!