Simple Marble Sorting Machine

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Simple marble sorting machine.

This video shows how paper can be rolled to create beams that can. Marble machine from. Engineer a simple machine to do it for you. The machine sorts four different colors and it also counts the number of marbles per color.

Many times these mechanical sorters are powered by motors but simple systems are powered only by gravity. Here is a video of a simple coin sorting machine made from cardboard. Sorting machines are used in many different applications but they all have something in common. In this project your goal is to build a gravity powered marble sorting machine that can sort large and small plastic spheres representing rocks and gems respectively like the ones shown in figures 1 and 2.

This project was mechanically very simple to build but re learning the coding skills took us some time. Please consider supporting my videos on. It can be adapted to be an automatic coin sorter with the addition of a small motor to create a vibration to keep the coins moving. With the marble sorting machine the same problem.

Engineers often prototype a solution and find once they test it that they need to go back and make changes and then test again. Building a simple sorting machine from ordinary craft materials is a great way for kids to explore engineering principles and to experiment with iterative design. It s possible to design a marble sorting machine made entirely of paper.