Soccer balls on the left, basket balls on the right. “Fast ball sorting robot” is an Akiyuki GBC module controlled with Mindstorms EV3 device. It sorts your favorite balls at the speed of light thanks to a very impressive horizontal ramp. You’ll love it.
| Original design by: Akiyuki | Number of parts: 2344 |
| Original Blog Article (English): here |
Complexity for building:  |
| Price for Building: €€€€€, super expensive |
Fast Ball Sorting Robot reverse engineering by Courbet
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Download LDraw Building Instructions |
MPD file provided by Courbet |
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Download PDF Building Instructions |
PDF file provided by Courbet |
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Program Mindstorms to operate the module | Mindstorms file provided by Courbet Mindstorms file 2 provided by Mogwai |
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XML format to upload required parts in BrickLink Wanted List |
Bricklink Wanted List related to PDF file above |
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Parts list available in BrickStore format (.bsx) | BrickStore file provided by turbopolofr |
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Does anyone have the EV3 program written in English? I have the module built but I have not been able to get it to run and want to open up the program to do some modifications but its not in a language I know.
Thanks,
Rick
Mustafa
for #2&3 check the height of the ball lift and the gripper drop position. If you are hitting the 1×4 tile your gripper axis is dropping too low. The ball lift should be at its highest position when the gripper grabs the balls.
As for #1 I think I am using Mogwai’s code. It works for about 100 balls then waits until I manually clear the current ball on the sensor. I believe the start instructions are A all the way towards the Mindstorms unit, B all the way up, and C all the way up.
I’ve been meaning to work on it so maybe will look at this weekend.
R/
James
Hello there,
first of all thank you in advance for great GBC model fast ball sorting robot.
I’ve done the complete model exactly as given on instruction.
there are three problems, i’d like to ask you,
1. the robot is not recognizing the balls. I bought the balls from PV-Production web page. (http://pv-productions.com/product/lego-gbc-balls/) orange and white color.
2. the robot hands mostly not gripping the balls. sometimes front 3L axles are hitting the 1×4 tile
3. how should i have to make syncronisation between the gripper movement and the Large servo motor, which is lifting up the colorized ball, movement?
thanks for your cooperation and
again appreciated for great works.
Best wishes
Mustafa