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by nemik
3333 days ago
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Thanks for writing this up and adding all these detailed notes! Super awesome work on this, it's very cool. The air puffs seem like the most unreliable parts at the moment? Maybe if you could have some manual labour, one thing to do would be to mount a project above the setup to shine a graphic you generate onto it. If you have bins labeled, you could project the label next to or on top of the part as it's moving on the conveyor. That way if you have human pickers, you're not constrained by the number of bins with each needing its own air-puff solenoid. |
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Yes, absolutely. There are ways to improve on that but nothing simple.
> Maybe if you could have some manual labour, one thing to do would be to mount a project above the setup to shine a graphic you generate onto it.
I don't follow you, what do you mean?
> If you have bins labeled, you could project the label next to or on top of the part as it's moving on the conveyor. That way if you have human pickers, you're not constrained by the number of bins with each needing its own air-puff solenoid.
Ah I see, no, the airpuffs are reliable enough for now even if they are the most unreliable part, besides humans would not keep up with the machine at speed. But it is a solvable problem, just not the most interesting one at the moment. The most interesting one is the hopper feeder belt because if I can make that work just a little bit better it will speed things up by a factor of 4 to 10 depending on how well it will work.