Stephen Hawes returns to discuss his business at Opulo.io, making the open source Lumen electronics assembly machines.

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Ye Olde Table o' Contents:

0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Pat explains what a pick and place machine does
1:40 - Can you believe it has been 18 episodes since we last chatted with Stephen?
2:40 - How has Opulo grown over the last two years?
3:40 - What did Opulo do to improve on the original kit?
5:56 - The LumenPNP needed powered component feeders
9:52 - How reliable is the LumenPNP? Can it run a job for several hours?
10:57 - How many chips per hour can the LumenPNP place?
13:35 - Pittsburgh!
14:35 - Back to the power feeders
15:50 - Pat thinks the $1.34 3D-printer semi-automatic cheater feeders are cool
18:35 - Jeremy wants to know what the third problem was
21:16 - How many units have you shipped?! HARD HITTING JOURNALISM!
22:27 - Have you watch Severance on Apple TV?
23:20 - Jeremy is having technical difficulties
25:44 - Stephen has his own podcast: Open Hardware Manufacturing (OHM)
30:16 - Jeremy has a request for an episode of the OHM podcast!
32:45 - Lucian is a real person who actually does exist
33:00 - To be serious, Lucian seems like good people, and Pat has always believed he is real!
37:03 - How do you feel about being responsible for actual human beings?!
39:00 - How many employees does Opulo have now? HARD HITTING JOURNALISM!
41:47 - All of Opulo's documentation that their techs use to build the machines are available online
43:05 - Welcome to the Coffee Break!

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