I wonder if he'll create a kickstarter for it
https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/26/leg ... l-network/
Automated sorting
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Re: Automated sorting
I don't think I have 2 tonnes of Lego bricks to test it out on though.
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Re: Automated sorting
I like the smaller build using similar technique (pressurized air blasts shoot part off conveyor belt) with Mindstorms to sort Technic pins:
https://youtu.be/CuW73P5PanM
https://youtu.be/CuW73P5PanM
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Re: Automated sorting
I should have added more to the original post.
While that technic pin sorter is pretty neat (if you dig through the links you can see this guy also built a proto-type purely out of lego) what makes this one so different is he's using a neural network to train his software to identify every lego element. This means he can then specify the sort criteria, so maybe do a first sort extracting 1xN bricks, tiles, wedge plates, and (if he saw a lot of them in the bulk that he's working with) maybe trans-red 1x1 cones. The rest of the bricks remain unsorted and he has separate containers with the extracted elements. He could then do a second pass of the 1xN bricks and extract all the red ones, or all the 1x3's, etc.
While that technic pin sorter is pretty neat (if you dig through the links you can see this guy also built a proto-type purely out of lego) what makes this one so different is he's using a neural network to train his software to identify every lego element. This means he can then specify the sort criteria, so maybe do a first sort extracting 1xN bricks, tiles, wedge plates, and (if he saw a lot of them in the bulk that he's working with) maybe trans-red 1x1 cones. The rest of the bricks remain unsorted and he has separate containers with the extracted elements. He could then do a second pass of the 1xN bricks and extract all the red ones, or all the 1x3's, etc.