[chbot] TCS3200 anyone?

[Andy Gardner]

Here you go, Robin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvtLk4i6TmY


On 9/04/2015, at 10:09 PM, Robin Gilks wrote:

> 
>> 
>> I'm picturing a narrow, segmented conveyor belt with a small walnut sized
>> cup on each segment.
>> 
>> The cups run past the detector, and then a bit further on a compressed air
>> jet is triggered when a dud goes past, blowing it out of it's cup sideways
>> off the conveyor belt into a catch tank. The good ones just drop off the
>> end of the conveyor straight into the shipping container.
> 
> I'm thinking more like a channel sorter but with only 1 or 2 channels
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_sorting#Channel_Sorters
> provided I can get the angle such that the nuts aren't going too fast past
> the detector.
> 
> Rather than providing a compressor, I'm thinking more solenoid driven flap
> that steers nuts to one of 2-3 destinations.
> 
> Still the problem of getting a steady flow of nuts onto a conveyor or
> channel shute without them bridging over the outlet of a hopper.
> 
> I feel a cardboard model coming on...
> 
> -- 
> Robin Gilks
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