{"id":159125,"date":"2021-01-20T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T13:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-raspberry-pi-machine-sort-every-lego-brick-there-ever-was-or-will-be-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T13:28:55","slug":"watch-a-raspberry-pi-machine-sort-every-lego-brick-there-ever-was-or-will-be-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-raspberry-pi-machine-sort-every-lego-brick-there-ever-was-or-will-be-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#Watch a Raspberry Pi Machine Sort Every LEGO Brick There Ever Was or Will Be \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Watch a Raspberry Pi Machine Sort Every LEGO Brick There Ever Was or Will Be \u2013 Review Geek”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Daniel West<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you have a lot of LEGO bricks, sorting them presents a problem. They come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. You could spend hours sifting, setting apart, and organizing, but what fun would that be? Why not turn to a Raspberry Pi machine instead? That\u2019s what Daniel West decided, and he built a device<\/a> that can sort any LEGO brick.<\/p>\n

West\u2019s machine can scan a LEGO brick, determine its nature, and then move it up a conveyor built into one of 18 buckets in its system. App<\/a>ropriately, West made it out of 10,000 LEGO bricks. But while that provides the structure, a Raspberry Pi provides the brains and vision.<\/p>\n

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Daniel West<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, the machine pushes the LEGO bricks along a vibration plate towards the camera. The vibration plate keeps LEGO bricks from stacking and ensures one brick passes in front of the Raspberry Pi camera module at a time.<\/p>\n

The Raspberry Pi uses a convolutional neural network to scan the brick and identify it. In a departure from other LEGO sorters, West fed the neural network 3D model images of LEGO bricks, so he\u2019s not limited just to the bricks he had on hand. That means it understands every LEGO brick ever made. And he could easily update it with future bricks.<\/p>\n