Cyberprog

That is very cool Jos! I like the zigzag conveyor and how you narrowed the feed and oriented them, and then just spat the overflow back into the bin. You're right, the speeds could be modified. I probably need to code it better with step reading and just pushing one brick off at a time. That may be far simpler and more elegant. Because I'm only targeting two colours, I could just have an open/close flap, read brick, if gold open flap, feed until I stop seeing gold, then close, feed until I see gold again. What chain were you using for your belts? NVM, looked on the PC and it's the small chain - have ordered a load to play with :)

I printed a load of those rings and auger bits last weekend but not had time to tinker yet.

So the colour separation is working already using the control+ education colour sensor, and pybricks. It's the feeding bricks to it slow enough for it to "read" the brick, then nudge it off the belt that is the tricky part! Thanks Morgan! It's very much a demonstration of CI/CD pipelining :)

Hello fellow AFOL's! My account finally got approved so figured I'd show off my creation to y'all. This MOC started off as the 42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator. I built the set originally as a fully Bluetooth model using two sBricks and two battery boxes. I chose to put 8 motors into this model, rather than the single XL motor Lego decided to use in conjunction with their traditional uber complicated gearbox and hand of God operation. 1) Upper Conveyor - XL motor (though I may swap this for a M motor later) 2) Lower Conveyor - M Motor 3) Lower Conveyor Rotation - M Motor 4) Upper Body Rotation - M Motor 5) Bucket Wheel Up/Down - M Motor 6) Bucket Wheel - L Motor 7) Track R - L Motor 8) Track L - L Motor You can see how it came out here; It was well received at its first show at the Brick Express (a GertLUG organised show at the Avon Valley Railway near Bristol in 2019, but I noticed that the digging function was...pants. What kids *really* enjoyed was putting handfuls of bricks into the side of the wheel and watching them run through the machine and into a waiting rock truck. So I ripped a load of stuff off and gave it a hopper at the end of the arm. Further reading of the set instructions led me to the "B" model, which was a "rock crusher" but featured a rudimentary brick sorter. So I scaled that up a bit and threw it on the back. Things grew with time and lockdown... And grew To where it is now 3 years later! The sorter features an independently powered feeder hopper with a double wide belt, feeding a 2.5m long main conveyor. The bricks (3062b and 553c) fall down into a fast transfer conveyor and are thrown down to the end of the yellow trommel. This is rotated by a set of wheels underneath. The smaller 3062b's fall through the 1 stud wide gap in the banana gears falling out the left hand side, and the 553c's helix out and fall out the right hand side. I regularly exhibit this MOC at local shows (I'm a proud member of GertLUG) and it always attracts a crowd. The noise it makes is very noticeable at the end of a show when I turn it off! Autistic people are drawn to it like moths to a flame, I've had kids spend entire afternoons repeatedly emptying and filling it's bins, to the point where I can go wander a show and leave them in charge! It also regularly eats gears (hence I've started ganging gears, though I managed to twist up some axles after doing this!) And wears through belt pieces. I continue to strive for perfection, and it will likely never be complete. The next challenge for me is colour separation and I have a proof of concept working, and am experimenting with 3d printed parts to achieve my goals now. Feel free to ask any questions! (And if anyone has any good ideas on feeding singular bricks every 5s I'm all ears!)