BGA: balled grid array (it is a surface-mount chip that has a layout like a 486 or any processor, but with no pins). We have Pentium III chips on reels like what you see in one of the pictures.

DIMA: the largest and fastest of our placement machines. It has two heads that pick up parts (from those micro resistors to the large chips) and place them on printed circuit boards which have sticky solder paste on the contacts. The heads can move to within 0.1mm and travel along at about 1 meter/sec.

Vision test: in this picture you see it taking an image of the components it has picked up. Each head has 5 nozzles, and as the head passes over the camera it stobes the flash to take a picture of each part to make sure it actually picked one up, and to see its rotation and make sure it is the right part (it even checks for bent pins on ICs and rejects them if bad).

Reel counter: you can put a reel of components on to count how many are left on the reel, such a fun job that one.

Office at night: This was taken at 9pm on my as-of-yet latest night at work.

Smoke over Longmont: This was the smoke overhead in the afternoon of October 29th from fires in Jamestown.