Hi all,
I’m looking to utilize an Arduino board and some accessories to make a conveyor. I realize the majority of the mechanical parts I’ll have to fabricate (this is for work and we have a machine shop, so not a problem), but I’m curious what parts are recommended.
The idea is:
~2ft X 3ft conveyor belt
Just needs to catch parts falling off of another conveyor and pull them away from that belt.
No min speed
I’d like to use a sensor to turn the motor on when a part approaches, and have the conveyor run until the part is maybe 1 ft from where it started. Precision is not important, so I think simply putting the motor on a timer may be sufficient as apposed to having another sensor.
I would think the parts needed would be the board, a power supply, a motor or two, and a few sensors. I’d like to be able to have a range of about 1ft wide for the sensor to detect parts coming off of the original conveyor as they don’t always go straight.
For a few senior engineering design projects my classmates used Arduino and I have a little programming ability, so I think this is feasible…no? The parts only weigh < 1lb. I’m not familiar with what motors are mateable to these boards. I believe I’ve seen some light sensors around, and I’m not sure which is optimal.
Thanks in advance!