ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:09 am #7867

He'll probably assemble the boards with his own pick and place machine:
http://hackaday.io/project/1219-pick-and-place-machine
I bet he's also built his own oven.

The pick and place machine is not finished yet, so the boards will be hand stuffed using a vacuum pickup tool. (I'm testing the one that will eventually go on the P&P.)

- Wed Jan 21, 2015 12:57 pm #7880 Hey Emil, I know shipping rates can be outrageous from Europe, and since you'll populate the boards by hand, it's going to be time consuming. By the way, why don't you have the job done in Asia?

- Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:08 pm #7911

Hi. I'm the guy making the 8266Wing shield.

Qudos to you ZeptoBit - I salute your hacker spirit and the things you've made!! Good luck finishing the pick and place machine and keeping it working after that - it sounds like the sort of machine that one could easily come to hate as much as love for being so demanding in terms of precision!!

If they are going to clone any board, yours would be a good one to clone - I love the small size of it - fitting only over half the arduino pins. Was that your idea?

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- Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:25 pm #8054 Hi guys, I'm Pavel, the founder of Blynk.

Very glad that this awesome community noticed our campaign.
We are currently investigating how to make Blynk supporting ESP8266. We would really like to support this board at release, but there are still too many unknowns for us.

If you have any feedback, questions, ideas - you are more than welcome!