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Magpie is a toolhead kit that swaps your print head for a vacuum nozzle and machine vision — so you can assemble circuit boards on your own desk.
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Every desktop pick-and-place sells you a motion platform — the expensive, already-solved 80% of the machine. Millions of people already own an excellent one: a modern CoreXY 3D printer. Magpie is the missing 20% — a toolhead, machine vision, and software that ride on the hardware you have.
Unclip the stock extruder from the carriage. Nothing permanent.
A vacuum nozzle, a rotation axis, and cameras slide onto the same carriage.
It lifts parts from tape, checks each one with machine vision, and sets it on the pad.
For rigid CoreXY / Klipper printers. Phase 1 assembles boards — you still source the bare PCB, which is cheap and fast (a 2-layer board is about $2).
The kit is how we start. The vision is one appliance that does it all — the way Bambu Lab turned a messy hobbyist stack into something anyone can use. The Bambu Lab of electronics.
Launch news, early-access pricing, and build updates.
One of us works in chip manufacturing. The other, in PCB assembly. Magpie is the machine in between.
Princeton senior working inside semiconductor manufacturing. Leads operations, strategy, and the business.
Princeton engineer working inside PCB assembly, with sourcing ties in Shenzhen. Builds the hardware and firmware.