Why bother with detecting the pockets. Use a curtain of nozzles that will blow in various directions. Maybe repeated once or twice and then blow the lot clean. A number of swirling nozzle will also work.
On 2014-08-18 19:46, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I've had a problem proposed to me. Any ideas or suggestions? > > A series of randomly sized wooden pieces (uniform thickness) placed randomly > on a slow conveyor. Each piece has 1 to 4 small pockets milled in them. I > would like to automate a method of blowing out the dust left from milling the > pockets. How hard would it be to detect the location of these pockets, > position an air nozzle over the pocket and clean them with a short air blast > as they are carried down the conveyor. > -- Regards /Groete Marius D. Liebenberg +27 82 698 3251 +27 12 743 6064 QQ 1767394877 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
