This week I was stuck on the chip return as the original plan detailed in the last blog post.
The vibrations required to get the chips moving through the intake was enough to move the table, so I wanted to switch to centrifugal spinning to get the chips sequential. This is detailed in the design report as I found this out before the paper was written. The design I am testing right now is shown below. It spins the chips into a track that is the exact width and height of a chip so that only one passes through at a time.
Every inch there will be a magnet that attracts the metal cores of the chips so that they can be easily pulled off the wheel and shuttled into a track.
My progress is a little bit behind now that I’ve had to go backwards on the chip ordering. I have tried to catch up over spring break as this was added slack time in our schedule.
I hope to complete the centrifugal chip ordering in the next week.