Mindstorms Candy Sorter

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John Baichtal

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YouTube user NXT1Engineer, who built a Mindstorms beer opening robot, is at it again with this M&M-sorting machine. I love the cleverness and efficiency of the various sub-mechanisms. [via The NXT Step]

4 thoughts on “Mindstorms Candy Sorter”

DJ says:

January 3rd, 2013 at 9:08 pm

how does it detect the colors exactly?
MAKE | Lego Binary Clock says:

June 11th, 2013 at 10:30 am

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