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If you have to put the bag in the machine, it's not much more effort to tear it open. If you do that over a large funnel, that should work to get all the skittl
by daveFNbuck 8y ago
If you have to put the bag in the machine, it's not much more effort to tear it open. If you do that over a large funnel, that should work to get all the skittles into the counter most of the time.
I was thinking that time could be saved by not sorting the skittles so nicely. Just take a picture of the skittles from each bag spread out randomly. You should be able to figure out the color distribution just by counting pixels within each color range.
- dotancohen 8y agoYou do not even need to count the pixels. OpenCV will identify the objects, then their dominant colour can be determined.
- dekhn 8y agoactually ripping a small bag filled with stuff open reliably is a bit harder than you might think.
- fencepost 8y agoactually ripping a small bag filled with stuff open reliably is a bit harder than you might think. "That's why we built Loppy the Chopper over there."
- daveFNbuck 8y agoThat's why I was saying I wouldn't try to automate that part. You don't need a super-reliable method if you're doing it by hand. On average, it probably takes a lot longer to count the skittles by hand than it does to open the bag, so most of the savings comes from the part that's easy to do reliably.