This week less forward progress was made as the 3d printer was down. Much of my focus then was on reviewing and refining the centrifugal chip sorter design from last week rather than building the new components. After the transition from the vibration based sorter, I wanted to make sure I have this working consistently so I dont run into the same problems with the new design.
I worked on going back over the tolerances on the chip track to confirm that the dimensions are tight enough to reliably make the chips sequential without jamming. I also got some more magnets into the wheel to see how fast I can pick up chips. No major hardware was assembled but what exists was added to.
losing access to the 3d printer for a couple days was a big problem, its up now but I lost a week of new pieces. I am going to mitigate this by trying to get access to tech spark. My goal for the week is having the sorting system fully prototyped with new access to another printer.