Those are the same non-functional machines I have seen for the past decade in some cases. All of them got to vision and got stuck.
I truly hope your machine gets past that point, because it would be really good to have a genuine, open-source pick and place machine. With the current advances in ML/AI and running on graphics cards, it should be within the realm of a hobbyist nowadays.
I wish you good luck and hope to see your stuff on one of the crowdfunding sites one day.
I think you're working on some outdated assumptions. As mentioned in the article, the LumenPNP project is successful. Myself and many others have been successfully assembling boards with it since earlier this year. Lumen isn't my project, it's just the machine that the board I designed is intended to work with.
I truly hope your machine gets past that point, because it would be really good to have a genuine, open-source pick and place machine. With the current advances in ML/AI and running on graphics cards, it should be within the realm of a hobbyist nowadays.
I wish you good luck and hope to see your stuff on one of the crowdfunding sites one day.