Marco Cialone
First Final Project idea:
I have planned a machine which manage to remove the leaves from the olives. It's composed by a rectangular structure made of wood. Inside of the structure, there are two sloped labs and within these two the olives will come down. Outside the machine, in front view (see figure below), there is a support which hold on the motor electric which give power to a fire fun and a display which shows the main information of the system. The machine also has a grid at the top, where we put the olives on. In my opinion, could be interesting adding a 'rake' next to the grid which could help us to remove some leaves before the olives cross the grid.
Machine working:
side view(2D):
anatoher side view(3D):
Machine drawing showing dimension:
side view showing dimension(2D):
front view showing dimension(2D):
here below there two links to see examples of the machine working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TakWW-0_t2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkEOnha4Fbo
For my final project idea, I found some very interesting examples, but I wanted to put some innovative structures that are not found in other machine. Infact, I think that the use and control of the machine is as important as its way of working.
Point of Innovation :
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Connection: with a bluetooth connection we can control the setting of the machine and the motor speed, see the measure of the leafless olives and its processing time (that is, the time that has passed since we've turned on the machine)
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Display: we can see on the machine everything which we can control with the connection
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Sensor: we can measure the weight of the olives without their leaves
How can we control the setting and the motor speed?
We choose the power of the motor(voltage) by using a potentiometer. We put it in front of the machine and near the display (manual use). If we set automatic use, the machine will work with a default motor speed.
Schedule included in my project
- CAD and 3D printing
- Computer controlled machine
- electronic design
- embeeded programming
- input device
- output device
- networking communication
- interface and programming
Presentation mp4
presentation- from Marco Cialone on Vimeo.
presentation png
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license
As I've said in the week18 I've decided to use the cc licence because it's the best way to improve my project and stimulate better idea similar to mine.
BOM
| component | quantity | vendor | price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3d printing material | x5 | my work | 15$ |
| OSB table | x2 | website | 30$ |
| pcb board | x1 | website | |
| electronic component | website | 3$ | |
| sonar sensor | x1 | website | 2$ |
| lcd display | x1 | website | 3$ |
| load cell | x1 | website | |
| motor dc | x1 | website | 15.95$ |
main problem of the system
Unfortunatly when I've fixed all the component an do the whole strucutre It didn't work because some linking (maybe those of the breadboard) are disconnected: so the problem was about the package of the electronic linking and the unfixed microcontroller:
so I've decided to re-do the box of the elctronics in a different way and the support of the board that I am going to mill. But though the board have worked ,the machine wouldn't work anyway because I haven't done a good support for the fan: so I've decided to redone it too..
To see the details about the development of the project go to the week project development
update presentation png
When I've finished my project and solve the errors I've re-done the slide of the presentation :
