Simple Marble Sorting Machine

It is a magical marble sorting machine using a color sensor fom adafruit type tcs34725 and a leonardo arduino from littlebits.

Simple marble sorting machine.

What is littlebits. Here is a video of a simple coin sorting machine made from cardboard. It can be adapted to be an automatic coin sorter with the addition of a small motor to create a vibration to keep the coins moving. Our machine used a one at a time marble reading and while this worked for two types of marbles an issue with the motor changing the sorting bins caused the sorting of the third marble.

Please consider supporting my videos on. Sorting machines are used in many different applications but they all have something in common. Engineers often prototype a solution and find once they test it that they need to go back and make changes and then test again. The machine sorts four different colors and it also counts the number of marbles per color.

It s possible to design a marble sorting machine made entirely of paper. This project was mechanically very simple to build but re learning the coding skills took us some time. Engineer a simple machine to do it for you. Building a simple sorting machine from ordinary craft materials is a great way for kids to explore engineering principles and to experiment with iterative design.

Many times these mechanical sorters are powered by motors but simple systems are powered only by gravity. With the marble sorting machine the same problem. Marble machine from.