1. Principles and practices¶
Assignment¶
- Plan and sketch a potential final project.
🏹 My purpose¶
On the first day of the FabAcademy we were told that our first assignment was planning and sketching the final project. I will not lie: I was not ready to sketch my project and the idea made me almost this 🤏🏽 anxious. Talking about telling the truth, I have had an idea in mind for a few month but I never got to give a shape to this idea.
I work in a studio-fablab and since March 2020 we have collected 3d printed PLA scraps from other labs and universities in Milan to recycle them. This initiative, which is very cool, is also time consuming in one specific moment: the division and sorting of the scraps by colour, which you can see in the following video.
We also collect plastic bottles caps that we then shred and we divide these by colour, too. My purpose is to change this process, designing an Automatic Cap Color Sorter Machine, or for short, ACCSM! The idea is to start with the caps and not with the scraps because the caps have a similar size and shape, while the scraps can be big, small, squared, triangular, etc: the shape cannot be controlled and therefore the useful space cannot be designed.
👩🏽🎤 Specifics - or something similar¶
The ACCSM should have a funnel to insert the caps in. Right after the funnel there could be a sensor capable of reading the colour of the caps, and based on the response of the sensor, the caps will go in a a direction or in another. Here there is a rough sketch of the functioning of the machine, altouhg the shape is not defined yet.
Going on I did a more accurate, yet still vague, sketch of the machine: there will be 8 colours identified, which are the most present in the caps we collect. The boxed colours will be the containers of the sorted caps.
