Many times these mechanical sorters are powered by motors but simple systems are powered only by gravity.
Simple marble sorting machine.
This project was mechanically very simple to build but re learning the coding skills took us some time.
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Engineers often prototype a solution and find once they test it that they need to go back and make changes and then test again.
With the marble sorting machine the same problem.
Our machine used a one at a time marble reading and while this worked for two types of marbles an issue with the motor changing the sorting bins caused the sorting of the third marble.
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Sorting machines are used in many different applications but they all have something in common.
Here is a video of a simple coin sorting machine made from cardboard.
In this project your goal is to build a gravity powered marble sorting machine that can sort large and small plastic spheres representing rocks and gems respectively like the ones shown in figures 1 and 2.
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Engineer a simple machine to do it for you.
It can be adapted to be an automatic coin sorter with the addition of a small motor to create a vibration to keep the coins moving.
It is a magical marble sorting machine using a color sensor fom adafruit type tcs34725 and a leonardo arduino from littlebits.
The machine sorts four different colors and it also counts the number of marbles per color.