Comment by justinpombrio
9 years ago
> Overall the machine works well but I’m still not happy with the hopper and the first stage belt. It is running much slower than the speed at which the parts recognizer works (30 parts / second) and I really would like to come up with something better.
It sounds like your existing hopper is reliable but slow? If that's the case, could you just make two (perhaps somewhat smaller) hoppers and merge their outputs?
It's not even all that reliable, plenty of times it will vomit 5 to 10 parts in one go because they got clumped together somehow and when one falls the rest will too. I've tried to improve on this by using a slide towards the second belt and this works sometimes but not always. Still plenty of 'multipart' images.