Reverse Engineering |
Marble
Sorter
This page will tell you more
about the marble sorter project
Here is the Top view, side view, and front view of the marble sorter
During the marble sorter project we were faced with one task, that task was to sort two different colored marbles into to separate bins, we got ten marbles and it was either clear marbles or it was colored or dark, they each came in random numbers. We used something called a photo transistor and a lamp, if you ever walked into automatic doors, that is what a photo transistor and lamp does, it shoots a beam of light and whenever something breaks that beam of light it tells the doors to open. In this case the photo transistor would tell the two bins where to move in order to separate the correct marble. Where are the marbles coming from? the marbles are coming from something we call a hopper, a hopper is something that drops whatever is being sorted, you can see that we had top use a foreign object in order to have a successful hopper, in this case I used the top of a bottle of Gatorade. You can also see the gate that we used, its right by the photo transistor, this opens whenever the photo transistor is done scanning the marble, once it opens it closes to stop the other marble from going. Once the marble leaves it goes into the bin its supposed to go into. The hardest thing about this project was the deadline and the program, and trying to do most of this within the time we had.