Resistor Sorter
Team Members Heading link
- Miguel Alanis
- Erik Lopez
- Juan Moreno
- Diego Nava
Project Description Heading link
Working in ECE laboratories gives a sense of thrill and fun through hands-on circuit building. But, what is not fun is returning the components back into their appropriate place, particularly resistors. Students will pile them on top of a table, unsorted, creating a habit that has continued long enough that the only solution is to store the pile in a bag. Vatos Industries wants to change that by designing a resistor sorter, a product not out in the market, allowing users to feed in resistors and automatically sort them. This machine will read the resistances using an ohmmeter that ranges from 1K to 400K ᘯ and display the measurements on an LCD. The known resistor will be dropped to a cart by the feeder, this cart will move on an axis, move the known resistor to its appropriate bin and drop it, then go back and the machine will continue to do so until the feeder is out of resistors. This whole process is hands free and little interaction between the user and machine.