Collin's Lab: Kit-making
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- When recently faced with the dauntingly tedious task of assembling my first-ever batch of electronics kits, I was lucky enough to have the ever-helpful eye of seasoned kit-maker Becky Stern close by. While observing my one-man assembly 'process', Becky advised a more efficient, modular assembly line technique using intermediary storage vessels better known as "plastic cups". Streamlining the process left me with plenty of time to cook up some some unusually fancy title/motion graphics for the above-seen video.
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That plastic cup thing was actually a good idea. I constantly get lost in where I'm at when dealing with a large amount of things to do
he is just the cutest and a great idea
I'm paranoid, too! I actually weighed each bag for the ScrewShield kits on a tiny 200g scale. This was accurate enough to make it obvious when I'd missed a part, or doubled one up.
2 words Beer/Soda and Pizza. Hire your friends. Scary how much work can be done paying friends with food and beer/soda.
Collin's my favorite Maker
This guy is great. Funny. Interesting. Keeps you watching. :D
they look good together
always a pleasure
When handeling Electronic componets, Electro-static precotions must be taken. Chips, transister, regulators and MosFets to name some of the more sesitive Parts. The Table should be grounded, and The person should be also. The Transfur of parts should only touch the grounded table/person or the Static Bags or the original paking materal. If the Cups were made of Anti Static Plastic,Glass or matalic then all parts would be safe From Electro static discharge!
Having done kitting (From an IT perspective where an order would generate a list of parts to be pulled) I know one other method.
Use muffin tins or even egg cartons to hold massed of an individual part. Then just pick from each part container and into a bag it goes. Much easier that way.
Thanks for the tips. I just put together my first magic set. Not as daunting though.
It's more efficient to build an assembly line. Put each part in a separate cup (capacitor in cup A, diode in cup B,...etc) and work each model down the line.
Collin's Lab is Great! Make More!
Smart is sexy. Becky is smart.
Great video!
Bill
Rather interesting.
I don't know what it is about this guy, hes so odd but I just can't stop listening to him.
its an Arduino-based MIDI synthesizer
What video editing program does he use?
LOL what does it do ?
midi-vox ??? is it a small signal generator of sorts ?
Everybody's got a better way... cool video. I'm guessing that music track was produced by your Midi Vox arduino shield kit? Hopefully you put it on Makershed because I've been waiting to use my GC... for something new and cool.
I've done this, you can get pretty paranoid about missing a part in some of the kits...
WIN!
good one keep it up !!
the silence stripping makes it awful to listen to this video, but whatever. I'm very curious about your kit! What does it do?
Great music
Collin works exactly the same way I do... >.>
LOL don;t worry Clean up is just as easy as catching a ball in a cup :)-
true
all you have to do is catch the ball in the cup ;)
What does the kit make?
it sucks more if 4 parts are missing xD
hahaha nice vid :D
@Protostack yup
there a lot of non-careful handling of delicate electronic parts here i see, im second guessing future purchases for the maker's shed
open a sweat shop lol jk cup idea awsome
Why not just make anti-static cups to send them away in?
ya i wanna know... too... :3
cute vid but what was the point? Today's project "using common sense" lol
@H2O2FromH20 That's pretty crap advice. I've been working with motherboards, processors and generally static-sensitive devices for over 10 years and not one of them has broken because of static electricity.
I even tried it on purpose once.