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Color sorting LEGO bricks...
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lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf
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Wed, 5 Apr 2000 20:36:41 GMT
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Zonker Harris <zonkerh@AVOIDSPAMcorp.webtv.net>
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Mike Poindexter wrote (in part):
> > We have an Elbiscan Laser Sorter that could sort the
> > bricks by color with 99% accuracy.
> > Still, it would be pretty crazy to see that operation and
> > the Lugnet crew would die to see a $400,000 computer controlled
> > laser Lego sorter in action.
So, couldn't you just use some technic parts to make a conveyor
and shaker, using 9-V motors to shake/vibrate the assembly to move
parts past the Mindstorms light sensor, and us a motor to knock
the "detected" color into one bin while the other color keeps
getting moved down into another bin? The mindstorms could just
run the whole thing, using the touch switches to sense when the
catch-bins have been removed, etc. Sounds like a $399,700 savings
from the other solution, and I'd be much more interested in seeing
the Mindstorms sorter. ;-)
-Z-
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Color sorting LEGO bricks...
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| Well, yes, I suppose I could. But then again, the mindstorms version won't remove Walnut shells from walnuts and even if it did, I don't think it could do 8 tons per hour. Still, I would like to see a mindstorms one as well. Mike Zonker Harris (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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