Discovery AOI Shots

The other machinery shoot for Calumet Electronics this week is the Discovery 8. This is another visual inspection machine that does high-speed image comparison between original CAM data and data captured from an imaged PCB panel.

Happy Birthday Kriss

My wonderful wife celebrated her birthday this week. We had a nice dinner and made s'mores afterwards. Here are some pictures from our evening. As usual Ela steals the show.

Doing the math, Kriss and I have known each other for 27 years now. Wow, time flies.

Happy Birthday to the love of my life!!!

Brad's Birthday

This past weekend, I hung out at yet another kid's birthday party. This one was an outdoor pool party for my nephew Brad. Nothing more fun to shoot than a bunch of kids around water.

Film Plotter

Today's pictures are of our our Orbotech Plotter. The plotter prints circuit images on film. That film is then used to transfer the image on to the circuit board material.

U.P. Fireman's Tournament

Pictures from the 2008 Upper Peninsula Firemen's Parade Saturday morning. Some of the "floats" were so original, I have to say its the most interesting parade I've seen in a while. Makes me wonder what the Night Shirt Parade was like.

There are some personal shots on the back end as well.

Optek InnerVision

This equipment X-Rays features inside a board for size attributes and is able to obtain feature to feature measurements. Made by the same company as the previous Video Mic.

Optek Video Mic

You can tell I've been shooting a lot of pictures where I work lately. This batch is of our Optek Video Mic. This machine uses light and a high resolution camera to find features on a printed circuit board and measure attributes of the feature.

The Optek can also take measurements between features to ensure the board is dimensionally correct.