StuffRaiser Conveyor Book Sorter
Background
This project was done as an internship with Jacob Sweizy and Josh Chang under the guidance of George Giltner for StuffRaiser and DeveloperTown.
Motivation
StuffRaiser had already created a system that sent books to various destinations when their ISBNs were scanned.
In order to make this process more efficient, we created a conveyor belt that automatically scans books and pushes them into the correct bin.Introduction
My main role in this project was to write the software on the Arduino based board and the chrome extension on the computer that linked everything together. However, I still did work on the mechanical aspect of this project. The Arduino based board controlled the pneumatic solenoids and collected sensor input. In addition to this, I developed a simulator for the Arduino code that allowed me to test everything, including the communications between the two devices.
