High Speed DIY M&M Sorting Machine Uses iPhone Brain

HughPickens.com writes: Canoe Tech reports that M&M sorting machines are a popular project for people who like combining electronics, programming and machine building. Most of them send a single M&M down a chute to a simple color sensor where the color sensor will then take a second or two to figure out the color. A servo motor will then rotate a chute that will direct the M&M into the correct pot. But a new project created by the nameless blogger behind the reviewmylife blog that uses an iPhone 5s as its brain is capable of sensing different colors and so can "sort" the M&Ms as they fall past. The iPhone communicates the information via Bluetooth to an Arduino board, which in turn fires off the correct electro magnet controlled gate. One practical application of the sorter could be creating a bowl of M&Ms — with all the brown ones removed.

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Practical

[twitnutttt]

One practical application of the sorter could be creating a bowl of M&Ms — with all the brown ones removed.

Wow, and to think that until I read this line, I was thinking to myself, "How useless."

Re:I don't get it

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet you did not even use an iPhone, pleb.

Does It Filter Out the Defective Ones?

[Scarletdown]

Sure, this can sort by colors. But, is it capable of filtering out the Ws?

Racism

[tgrigsby]

One practical application of the sorter could be creating a bowl of M&Ms — with all the brown ones

So you just want to single out the brown ones, huh?

I'm brown, you insensitive clod!