A hole is cut in the box so the light sensor can peek through the hole and see each marble.
The marble sorter.
We were to design model and test of a larger scale machine using marbles as the potential recycled items.
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.
Must be under 2 minutes.
30 second time penalty for each wrongly sorted marble.
Also the machine should be able to sort individual materials even when mixed with other materials.
Can be easily modified to sort different colours.
We were to create this machine which would automated.
The sorter must sort 15 marbles of wood plastic and steel.
Fastest time gets first place.
The brainpad is mounted on the back of the box.
An autonomous marble sorter which raises marbles to a height then separates based on type glass or metallic and colour white yellow and black.