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AW: Assembly line feeding system
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:31:19 GMT
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Maybe a look into actual GBC designs and their approaches to transportation
might prove useful (?).
(Ok, it's for LEGO balls instead of plates)

http://www.greatballcontraption.com/

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Von: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com] Im Auftrag von
John Boozer
Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Juni 2008 20:46
An: lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com
Betreff: Assembly line feeding system

I'm trying to feed 1x1 plates into an assembly line.
[...]
I'm just having trouble getting the
pieces from the hopper into the chute.

My plan was to use a tank tread to dump a few pieces at a time into some
system
to get the piece oriented to slide into the chute.  But so far the stuff
I've
come up has a problem with pieces getting stuck.

Anybody have any ideas/suggestions?  Anybody know of anybody doing something
similar?



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  Re: AW: Assembly line feeding system
 
GBC module creators tend to independently reinvent the same hopper solutions used in factories. Some of them shake, many of them have an agitator spinning inside it to loosen the pieces, but the simplest just use gravity and a change of direction. (...) (16 years ago, 2-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Assembly line feeding system
 
What I'm trying to do is inspired by the feeding mechanism of (URL) trying to feed 1x1 plates into an assembly line. I've built several hoppers to hold a few hundred pieces each. I've got a chute design so that the pieces slide down without room to (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.robotics)

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