Capstone Project: Marble Sorter

Initial Ideas/Prototypes:

Another idea consisting of three pistons that would retract due to the reading from a photoresistor.

Another View:

Scrap that, we're starting off fresh:

Here's the begining of the end:

It fell apart.....

 Here's our final solution before wiring it up. The wood and metal are seperated in the begining due to size and then ultimately weight. The remaining glass marbles are subjected to a beam of light and a photoresistor that is programmed to read different values that are paired with a certain bin.

Some of the wiring and setting up the compression chamber

 The Final Product:

This project has been my favorite so far. Having such loose guidelines and just an ultimate goal gave us a lot of freedom as to how we were going to approach it. Our team sifted through various ideas during the process and ultimately developed an apparatus that involved both simple machines and electronic components.