This week I’ve been finalizing the design for the chip system for our design report and the document we are writing to help outline how everything will work.
At the center of our table we will have a funnel that looks like the image above, I am actively 3D printing this. This puts the chips into a sequential order, which can then be fed into the color sensing that I showed last week. To gain height from the collection in the center of the table, I am also building a track that will act as a vertical conveyor belt. The chips have a metal weight inside them so I will be using magnets to pull them up along this track. At the top of this track the actual color sorting will happen with the use of gravity, into the container imaged below.
Behind each of these stacks I am working on putting a solenoid to push out individual chips onto each players return track.
Overall I think I am near on schedule. 3D design of all these unique parts has been taking longer than I want, but I haven’t done something requiring this much fabrication before so thats sort of expected. We have also had some things we ordered arrived finally, so we can start making progress on things like the RFID scanning and dealer.
This week I would like to have the funnel and color sensing working together.