Simple Marble Sorting Machine

The machine sorts four different colors and it also counts the number of marbles per color.

Simple marble sorting machine.

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 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. 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. This video shows how paper can be rolled to create beams that can.

It s possible to design a marble sorting machine made entirely of paper. Many times these mechanical sorters are powered by motors but simple systems are powered only by gravity. Engineer a simple machine to do it for you. It is a magical marble sorting machine using a color sensor fom adafruit type tcs34725 and a leonardo arduino from littlebits.

Engineers often prototype a solution and find once they test it that they need to go back and make changes and then test again. Please consider supporting my videos on. This project was mechanically very simple to build but re learning the coding skills took us some time. What is littlebits.

Marble machine from. All electronic parts are made with littlebits. Here is a video of a simple coin sorting machine made from cardboard.