Simple Marble Sorting Machine

With the marble sorting machine the same problem.

Simple marble sorting machine.

This project was mechanically very simple to build but re learning the coding skills took us some time. Many times these mechanical sorters are powered by motors but simple systems are powered only by gravity. Marble machine from. In this project your goal is to build a gravity powered marble sorting machine that can sort large and small plastic spheres representing rocks and gems respectively like the ones shown in figures 1 and 2.

It is a magical marble sorting machine using a color sensor fom adafruit type tcs34725 and a leonardo arduino from littlebits. Engineer a simple machine to do it for you. The machine sorts four different colors and it also counts the number of marbles per color. What is littlebits.

Sorting machines are used in many different applications but they all have something in common. It s possible to design a marble sorting machine made entirely of paper. Here is a video of a simple coin sorting machine made from cardboard. This video shows how paper can be rolled to create beams that can.

Please consider supporting my videos on. 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. 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.