The Marble Sorter

Marble sorter objective the assignment given to us was to simulate a recycling sorting machine that would sort the materials the marbles in its owe different container with the container being removable.

The marble sorter.

The brainpad is mounted on the back of the box. A hole is cut in the box so the light sensor can peek through the hole and see each marble. Also the machine should be able to sort individual materials even when mixed with other materials. National recreation park association nrpa needed a sorter to sort recycled materials.

Can be easily modified to sort different colours. Each marble is held in front of the brainpad s light sensor so it can be determined if it is a black or white marble. Created as a year 11 engineering project. We were to design model and test of a larger scale machine using marbles as the potential recycled items.

An autonomous marble sorter which raises marbles to a height then separates based on type glass or metallic and colour white yellow and black. Must be under 2 minutes. 30 second time penalty for each wrongly sorted marble.