This. Wow! I won’t be anywhere near ECC18 but I look forward to seeing coverage of this machine from the conference floor (hopefully the talk will be streamed or archived for viewing as well).
I will present that project at the Embedded Computing Conference 2018 (June 5th), both in a conference talk and have the machine in the exhibition area.
The machine is based on OpenPnP framework, and is not finished yet, and I have published status updates on Twitter. It uses mostly standard components, special parts have been 3D printed or produced with a laser cutter.
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