He’s the designer of the LumenPNP open-source pick-and-place machine, and is toying with ... Small deformable metal balls are embedded in a gel-like tape, and conduct in only the Z direction ...

Professional-grade pick and place machines are quite pricey, so when the crew at Null Space Labs picked up an old Juki Placemat 360 for only $1,200, they were stoked. When they finally got it in ...