On 18 August 2014 20:50, Dave Caroline <dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tip them pocket down and vibrate them, get the dust to fall out (use a > roller conveyor) > > Dave > > Best advise !! But if you really want to use a camera, you'll have to contend with purging a pocket around the lens to keep it dust free. For vision, have a look at Roborealm.com . I found it to be very versatile software, and you can interface to it using the API or a serial interface if you want to keep the vision standalone. Roland > On 18/08/2014, Marius Liebenberg <mar...@mastercut.co.za> wrote: > > Why bother with detecting the pockets. Use a curtain of nozzles that > > will blow in various directions. Maybe repeated once or twice and then > > blow the lot clean. > > A number of swirling nozzle will also work. > > > > On 2014-08-18 19:46, Todd Zuercher wrote: > >> I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? > >> > >> A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uniform thickness) placed > >> randomly on a slow conveyor. Each piece has 1 to 4 small pockets milled > in > >> them. I would like to automate a method of blowing out the dust left > from > >> milling the pockets. How hard would it be to detect the location of > these > >> pockets, position an air nozzle over the pocket and clean them with a > >> short air blast as they are carried down the conveyor. > >> > > > > -- > > > > Regards /Groete > > > > Marius D. Liebenberg > > +27 82 698 3251 > > +27 12 743 6064 > > QQ 1767394877 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
