
E
ver since I saw Akiyuki’s Lego-sorting
machine way back in 2011, I’d had the idea
of building one as well. About 3.5 years ago I was
in university for computer science, and started
playing around with computer vision. About a
year later, I started reading some articles on AI,
and realized it was perfectly suited for the task.
My machine first separates the bricks into a
stream, using belts and a vibrating table powered
by a Lego motor spinning an offset weight. This
part of the machine went through more iterations
than any other component, and even then I’m
not totally happy with the solution — sometimes
parts will fall through more than one ...