Also the machine should be able to sort individual materials even when mixed with other materials.
The marble sorter.
Must be under 2 minutes.
The sorter must sort 15 marbles of wood plastic and steel.
30 second time penalty for each wrongly sorted marble.
Each marble is held in front of the brainpad s light sensor so it can be determined if it is a black or white marble.
A hole is cut in the box so the light sensor can peek through the hole and see each marble.
Created as a year 11 engineering project.
Can be easily modified to sort different colours.
National recreation park association nrpa needed a sorter to sort recycled materials.
An autonomous marble sorter which raises marbles to a height then separates based on type glass or metallic and colour white yellow and black.
Marble sorter objective the assignment given to us was to simulate a recycling sorting machine that would sort the materials the marbles in its owe different container with the container being removable.
We were to design model and test of a larger scale machine using marbles as the potential recycled items.