Sorting Haribo Candy for an Ad Campaign
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I was contacted in March (2019) to build one of my candy sorting machines for the Haribo candy company for an ad campaign in Paris, France. (My old username was Egenriether but when the site migrated I was unable to get my old username back.) I originally invented a Skittles sorter with a BS2 that due to some web popularity got Haribo to contact me 8 years after that project. forums.parallax.com/discussion/143557/bs2-powered-skittles-sorting-machine#latest Better late than never! I made the machine in a couple months and delivered it personally to Paris and took part in the filming of the campaign.
The campaign was basically this: A machine will sort 200 jellybeans of 6 different colors live everyday on social platforms. By participating on FB or Twitter you got a digital "ticket". This ticket had 6 numbers that corresponded to 6 colors of candy. If you got 4, 5, or 6 numbers correct you won tons of candy. The campaign turned out to be a huge success (both from a technical standpoint and commercially as well).
So I created this machine with a PropStick, the TAOS color sensor from PhiPi available on Parallax's website, and 3 Hitec servos. It's made of HDPE, PVC, acrylic and a machinable epoxy that I use on lots of projects.
Here is a video of the actual machine (youtube video posting function not working on post editor):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U9xDOW28p5s
Here is the write-up on my website:
egenriether.com/dragimaniak.html
To see some of the videos from this campaign look here:
https://facebook.com/dragibus/
Thanks!
-Brian Egenriether
The campaign was basically this: A machine will sort 200 jellybeans of 6 different colors live everyday on social platforms. By participating on FB or Twitter you got a digital "ticket". This ticket had 6 numbers that corresponded to 6 colors of candy. If you got 4, 5, or 6 numbers correct you won tons of candy. The campaign turned out to be a huge success (both from a technical standpoint and commercially as well).
So I created this machine with a PropStick, the TAOS color sensor from PhiPi available on Parallax's website, and 3 Hitec servos. It's made of HDPE, PVC, acrylic and a machinable epoxy that I use on lots of projects.
Here is a video of the actual machine (youtube video posting function not working on post editor):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U9xDOW28p5s
Here is the write-up on my website:
egenriether.com/dragimaniak.html
To see some of the videos from this campaign look here:
https://facebook.com/dragibus/
Thanks!
-Brian Egenriether
Comments
-Phil
Jim
I like the white material construction ...
Is that plastic or metal?
How finished?
Congratulations. Its' an amazing design, and looks gorgeous too!
Just to give further details on the materials, the outer shell and 6-tube manifold at the bottom are made from Wood Epox by Abatron. These epoxy parts are molded first then sanded down and "dremeled" into shape once the epoxy cures. The inside of the tube manifold is lined with acrylic tubes like the sorting arm so that every surface the candy touches is made from a food-safe material (the epoxy is not). These tubes are just acrylic shot glasses formed to look like test tubes. They even came in a rack to look like a chemical experiment. The epoxy parts are spray painted white. The core structure is 4" PVC and all the black parts and base are HDPE.
Good job