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Working Model Factory Made With Lego Robots
kkleiner writes "In his continuing obsession with all things Lego, robotic, and awesome, Chris Shepherd recently constructed the Lego Quad Delta Robot System, a full working model of an industrial robotics line in a factory. The Lego Quad Delta Robot System has four flexing arms that can move in three dimensions, each equipped with a pneumatically driven gripper. Those arms pick up blocks moving on two conveyor belts marked with special light sensors that detect the block's position and color. The system can move 48 of these blocks per minute. Oh, and the whole darn thing, including the impressive support frame, is made out of Lego!"
definitely neat. what I found most interesting is that he programmed the color sensors in fixed locations. each arm always goes to the exact same physical spot for a block pick up, it then moves tot a different bin based on color, goes to the reset spot and picks up the next block that enters it's pickup spot.
Since each arm only picks up blocks in a certain location you would have gaps on density of blocks. However 4 arms provides something like 80% pick up ability so all he needs is a 5th arm so he never loses a block off the end(based on current belt speeds)
Still it is impressive if not very quiet.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
It looks neat, but it's just a color sorting machine? It doesn't actually put anything together.
"A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. "
It's overly complicated for what it does. Sure, it looks neat, but c'mon, four huge arms to color sort some boxes?
I don't know of any other childrens' toy that can also be used for producing working versions of master theses. Well, maybe an erector set...but I don't even think they make those anymore.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
I'm out of a job at the block sorting factory :(
This is cool, but clearly what needs to be done is to build a lego replicator. Surely it's possible to build a factory out of lego that can build a wide variety of lego objects, including a copy of itself.
Then you just feed it a bunch of parts, wait for the exponential growth to kick in, and then you can cloudsource assembly of many lego models. You could sell the (the models or the factories) for a little over the cost of the constituent legos + electricity and still make money.
Still not a cool as this one which is also made entirely out of legos.
Time to offend someone
That is, until, it decides to terminate the meat bag that keeps mixing up the colours.
FRA: STFU GTFO
I'm awfully sick of hearing people talk about smart technicians this way. I guess playing basketball and having lots of sex is the meaningful way to live your life. Incidentally, have you ever seen the beginning of the movie Idiocracy?
Christians don't really mourn the "loss of Christ" on Good Friday. It's actually more of a day of celebration.
(Off-topic post, sorry. Hope this doesn't explode into yet another /. religious debate. Just sayin'.)
The block sorting lego robot arms are pretty cool and all, but this lego monster machine is by far a lot more entertaining and worth every minute of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWd3vgLaA_M
Well, at least to me cause I'm a nerd. =p
This space is not for rent.
What I've always wanted is a machine that you dump all your legos into and it sorts them by color, not just special blocks but any lego piece. Another sort that would be very useful is by type: short beams, long beams, small panels, big panels, wheels, axles, gears, technic beams, etc...
Holy shit! Christ died??!!
is Lego. No 's' required.
http://www.acetonestudio.com
Fuck me, christ was real?
To take the blocks from the bins and place them at the beginning of the belts? Man, what a slacker.
This should be informative -- those robots are impressive to see.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
Ok people, the reason this is cool is because he replicated a specific type of factory robot called a 'pick and place delta robot', not because he couldn't think of any other way to sort the blocks. This type of robot is the fastest way to sort and place objects that are coming down a conveyor belt at random intervals and placements.
The fact that the submitter made it sound like you were going to be watching a manufacturing robot does not make this less impressive.
Check out a video of how a real delta robot looks in action, and you can see how cool it is that he was able to achieve this with only legos: Bosch Paloma-D2 Packaging Robot
I expected to see a little shiny endoskeleton looking around in confusion while a small blonde figure hides behind a stairway.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
So much for art, eh? Must pretty boring around your place.
Kid-proof tablet..
were also, essentially, sorting machines.
they counted census cards, and sorted them into stacks.
It was made in 1784 by Monks from St Thomas the Redeemer. It lasted several years until the Visigoths burned it down.