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Multiple nested bins, each with a grating on the bottom. The second-lowest bin would have the smallest holes (the lowest bin must be hole-free), and bins above that would have ever larger holes.
To sort your LEGO, dump it in the top bin and shake for a while. Then separate the bins. The smallest
pieces will be in the bottom bin, the largest pieces in the top bin, with medium pieces in between.
Full-baked
http://www.box4blox.com/
As you describe [bdag, Oct 20 2009]
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Hmmmm, what about the long, thin, smooth topped ones, that are only a third of a brick in height?
Wouldn't they defeat your sorting mechanism, and fall through to the bottom anyway? |
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Shouldn't there be a color and type sorter instead? |
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[Wouldn't they defeat your sorting mechanism] |
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Probably, but after using it a few times, you'd learn which bins certain pieces would end up in. |
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[Shouldn't there be a color and type sorter instead?] |
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I don't think there's a mechanical way of sorting by color or type. You'd need some sort of electronic camera. |
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AntiQuark! The pieces naturally sort this way when you shake a box of them. |
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Of course if you really wanted to know where all your pieces were you'd sort them by size, shape, and colour, and just keep them segregated anyway....... |
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[kaz] I agree, I've explained that to my kids many times :) |
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But what kind of kid keeps his toys that well organised? |
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The kind you worry about. |
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Baked and baked. Check out the Box4Blox website and enter yourself to win one. |
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[bdag] Cool, I was unaware of that, thanks for the link! |
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Most of my old Lego bricks are stored by usefulness, in model format. |
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I like to store mine autobiographically. |
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You need to get out more and meet people your own age, [kaz]. |
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Hey, I didn't say I played with them. They live in the attic somewhere. |
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I also happen to have a perfectly functioning social life thank you very much, I just can't remember where i left it.
Besides, we can't all just absorb more company when we need it. |
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My son has 17, wait, make that 19... actually, he informs me it's 23 x 3 litre buckets, full of LEGO, sorted by colour. |
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Just a little obsessive about LEGO, that boy. |
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So was I when I a kid. I had probably 4 buckets of regular LEGO.
I had all the specialty sets, too. Let's see... there was the Star
Wars Death Star, Luke's X-Wing, Vader's TIE fighter, a Y-wing, an
A-wing, a B-wing, a Star Destroyer, a Yoda model... my favorite
was the robotics sets. I built a miniature R2-D2 robot, complete
with a light-sensor alarm and autonomous movement. Then
there were the Aquanauts sets, with the submarines... then the
Space Explorers, complete with an alien UFO, and the knock-off
not-quite-Indiana Jones adventurer sets... that was, of course,
before they released the authentic, licensed real Indiana Jones
sets. Don't get me started on my Lincoln Log collection. |
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This is a good idea, but, as pointed out by bdag, Baked. [-] |
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Too many specialised parts now. I mean, by the time you've updated your inventory with new part descriptions and possible uses, your lego time is up. The paperwork is getting to me. |
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When I used to have lego, I kept it in a giant plastic tub, and the only obsession was not permitting unused pieces to be joined together. The pleasure of "rooting" though the tub with both hands in search of a vital brick, which you know you possess only one of! |
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Anyway, for this application I vote for a small robot arm with camera, to individually pick pieces and place them in appropriate chutes. |
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If sorted properly, my smartbox post would be ideal for this. |
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