For the width, I think tape width always is a multiple of 4mm and something with a stop every 4 mm Thickness could be adjustable by sliding two tapers against each other. This also needs some adjustment mechanism to be able to adjust to different tape widths and thicknesses. Next improvement is to add some integrated mounting mechanism, so it can easily be fixed to some scissors or other cutting apparatus. There is so much light bleeding through to the “off” segments, that I can not even read the numbers in the display in the demonstration video. I can see some merit for this, but in its current form it’s not good enough. Posted in Crowd Funding, Tool Hacks Tagged 7 segment, Crowd Funding, Crowd Supply, inventory, kit production, smt reel, SMT tape, tools Post navigation Want the nitty-gritty details? Visit the GitHub repository for the project and see it all for yourself at the CAD level. After all, has a lot of experience in getting clever with board fabrication, and eagle-eyed readers may even suspect that the reset and setup buttons on the edge of the tool are created by using flex PCB segments as switches. If you looked at the photos and suspected that the big, 7-segment numeric display is done with clever PCB fabrication options (making segments by shining LEDs through PCB layers, a trick we always like to see) you’re not alone. In fact, the hassle of cutting tape segments accurately and repeatedly is a common pain point, so making the job easier has value. Sure, one can measure SMT tape with a ruler or a reference mark to yield a segment containing a fixed number of parts, but that involves a lot of handling and doesn’t scale up very well. In fact, the usefulness of this tool for creating tape segments of fixed length is perhaps not obvious to anyone who hasn’t done it by hand. The first is handy for obvious reasons, and the second is useful for things like creating kits.
Why would one want to make such a task easier? Two compelling reasons for such a tool include: taking inventory of parts on partial reels or cut tape, and creating segments that contain a known number of parts. The device is powered by a CR2032 cell and and works with 8 mm wide tapes up to 2 mm in height, which says covers most 0805 or smaller sized parts, as well as things like SOT-23 transistors. That device is the BeanCounter, an upcoming small handheld unit of his own design that counts parts as quickly as one can pull tape through a slot. Has an interesting idea for a new tool, one that has the simple goal of making accurate part counts of SMT reels as easy as pulling tape through a device.
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