A manual pick-and-place? It’s essentially an un-driven 2 ... the “machine” moving in a circular pattern. The SMD Beak is just a weight for holding down SMT parts as you hand-solder them ...

In what can probably be attributed to the pains of placing a lot of SMD components, [gravelrash] built his own home-made pick and place machine. Instead of being frustrated with tweezers ...