Automatic Color Sorting

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Check out this Automatic Color Sorting DIY that uses some DC and stepper motors from an old HP printer and uses Parallax’s new 32bit processor as the brain. Brilliant!

This could be great to low budget project requiring color sorting.

Once the Sensor was figured out I started to build everything. Most of the parts including the DC motor and stepper motor were taken from an old HP 712c Printer I had laying around. The carriage system for the ink head was my main platform for the sorting process to occur on. I then had to design a way to control the flow of m&m’s, this was accomplished with the idea of using a system that is commonly found in gumball machines and a coin sorting machine. I then made a CAD drawing for it to be milled by my father using a CNC machine.

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5 Responses to Automatic Color Sorting

1. girrrrrrr2 says:

   August 26, 2007 at 8:43 am

   why would you need to color sort something???
2. gaurav Panwar says:

   August 27, 2007 at 12:13 am

   i want to work for your company as indian manager
3. Izl says:

   August 28, 2007 at 2:19 pm

   Arent there things out there that do this? I might be wrong
4. girrrrrrr2 says:

   August 28, 2007 at 3:06 pm

   yes but the point is yuo can make one idstead of spend a ton of money…
5. Izl says:

   August 29, 2007 at 6:39 pm

   guess so