The module I have designed for the french meeting GBC-fanabriques.
The module was designed to count, the most precisely as possible, the balls which cross the module. The balls come in the drip tray, then a conveyor moves them to the exit of module. Crossing the module, the balls push the 6-tooth wheel, then the rotation of this wheel is converted to the main counter. It’s very simple but very accurate. Some other prototypes that I created worked on gravity but they weren’t so accurate.
The counter is composed of 5 digits (one is missing on the pictures) with 1/10 reductions each other. A linear clutch allows to synchronise the wheel with the counter and one other is used to the anti-lock system. The counter is very accurate, because there is one direction of rotation, so no dead point. At fanabriques 2010 (in a week, the 26th-27th June), we expected 28800 balls a day, so I hope my module will work good.
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Designed in 2010
July 10th, 2010 on 23 h 10 min
No, the basket and soccer balls measure 1.8studs and bionicle balls 2.1stud. The fact is soccer balls pass between 2studs but not the bionicle parts.
July 10th, 2010 on 2 h 49 min
are the soccer and basketballs in the GBC the same size as the bionicles balls?
June 25th, 2010 on 14 h 29 min
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