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Paper plane folding and shooting robot

COOL, I always wanted to have this, so I can send flyers all around.

Here is a full description by the creator:

Station 1, paper magazine
The level of the paper is automatically adjusted so that the paper at the top always go straight into the machine. I do this with a lego accelerometer sensor that is mounted on a arm the rests on the top of the paper pile, so as the machines runs and the paper pile gets smaller and the angel of the arm changes. The accelerometer sensors tilt function then tells the motor to raise the magazine. And when i fill the machine with paper the motor will lower the magazine.

Station 2, Tip fold
Using a color sensor the check when the paper is in the correct spot and then the machine holds the paper in 3 spot with pneumatic cylinders. It hold the paper right at the edge of the folds so that the paper doesn't move. Because i have to hold the paper at the tip as well and not be in the way of the fold i get a gap of 2-3mm at the tip that doesn't get folded. So the tip is not perfect.

Station 3, Wing fold
The wings fold automatically by the forward motion. How its done is hard to see in the clip of V2 and the picture above but you can see it in the V1 clip at 1:01.

Station 4, Middle fold
This station is the one I'm most proud of.
The motors that drive the wheels is inside the two moving parts (1 motor for each side). The folding is done with a XL motor that drives 4 linear units. As the fold is happening there is 1 arm at each side that hold the paper to make sure that the paper don't starts to fold in the wrong direction and right before the fold is done the arms get pulled away with small pneumatic cylinder. Also here i use color sensors to tell when the paper is ready.

Station 5, Throwing
When the plane been moved into this station and is ready to shot the 2 XL motors start the throwing wheels and then the driving wheels(the ones that transport the paper) get pulled away with pneumatic cylinders right before a pneumatic cylinder pulls the throwing wheels together.

Compressor ( the unit next to the two nxt controllers.)
I use a motor that drives 2 small pumps.
To check the pressure i use a pneumatic cylinder that press on some springs. The pneumatic linear motion i then convert to a rotation movement. and then on a wheel i have taped on a paper"shading scale"(dark in one end and gets lighter unit its completely white). Then i have a light sensor that looks at it and i get a analog reading of the pressure. (so this is the only part thats not lego, a small printed black/white piece of paper. + tape)

Servo relay ( the unit next to the compressor)
For some reason the drive motors for station 4 didn't like to be controlled by IR receivers (could be cable length or that the motors was too stress so that current got to high) So i had to use a battery box directly to the motors, and then used a servo motor to control the battery box.

Pneumatic valves
All the pneumatic valves is controlled by servo motors.

Material:
2x NXT
5x NXT Servo motors
4x NXT Color sensors
3x NXT Touch sensors
1x Touch sensor multiplexer
1x NXT accelerometer sensor
1x NXT Infrared Link sensor
5x Normal Power function motors
5x XL Power function motors
4x IR receivers
5x Battery boxes
about 7149 lego pieces


For the 3d drawing i used SR3D builder. (did the drawing after the machine was complete)

NXTLog with some pictures and explanation
WOW and if the machine it self wasn't cool enough, he also made a complete 3D drawing now that is ultra cool !!!

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