Lego Axle Sorter [video]
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Lego Axle Sorter [video]
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#2Amazing. Is there a mechanical "program" (similar to a player piano roll) that sequences all of the actions? I didn't see one.
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#3I want a machine that could do this will all types of Lego. I've got a 25 lb box of Lego pieces in the garage I'd love to get sorted into little plastic bags.
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#4I want a machine that could do this will all types of Lego. I've got a 25 lb box of Lego pieces in the garage I'd love to get sorted into little plastic bags.
Harder by orders of magnitude: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
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#5I want a machine that could do this will all types of Lego. I've got a 25 lb box of Lego pieces in the garage I'd love to get sorted into little plastic bags.
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#6Amazing. Is there a mechanical "program" (similar to a player piano roll) that sequences all of the actions? I didn't see one.
I think there's no "program" here. All the machinery does the same action for every piece, the singulation is with overflow/skipping buckets, and the sorting happens because the openings are constructed progressively bigger such that the longest axle falls of (tips over the edge due to imbalance) in the first bin, the second longest in the second bin, etc.
Still, super impressive and cool!
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#7Amazing. Is there a mechanical "program" (similar to a player piano roll) that sequences all of the actions? I didn't see one.
There are drive shafts at the bottom of the device that drive mechanical linkages.
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#8I want a machine that could do this will all types of Lego. I've got a 25 lb box of Lego pieces in the garage I'd love to get sorted into little plastic bags.
Harder by orders of magnitude: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
Wow! 38,000 shapes in 100+ colors (according to that post). Yeah, that's definitely a much bigger challenge. "The final result classifies a part in approximately 30 ms on a GTX1080ti Nvidia GPU." Very nice.
I've seen way too many "How It's Made" episodes... He needs some sort of vibrating table, and a high speed belt with a "jump" of some sort to combine with those air cannons.
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#9Amazing. Is there a mechanical "program" (similar to a player piano roll) that sequences all of the actions? I didn't see one.
There are drive shafts at the bottom of the device that drive mechanical linkages.
There is one obviously visible cam (yellow half-circle) that seems to control the little wheel that shoots a single piece into slots that move over the sorting bins.
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#10I highly recommend that user's full channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/akiyuky/videos
Akiyuky is apparently a process engineer in Japan, and posts impressive lego-based contraptions.
A lot of of them are for GBC, or "Great Ball Contraption", a collaborative project to make lego modules whose sole purpose is to move standard lego balls from one point to another. You'll often see collections of these at lego conventions. For example: