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WonderingWill

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I've just been given a project to design an automatic counting and bottling tablet system and honestly don't know where to start. It needs to sense when tablets are dropped into the bottle 1 at a time and cannot exceed 6 tablets per bottle or it sends an error signal. Any one with any ideas on a good starting point would be greatly appreciated.
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Harald Kapp

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Building a counter is the easy part.
How are you going to sense when a tablet is dropped into the bottle? That's where I'd start from.
 

Colin Mitchell

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The best starting point is to buy the detector from China for $120.00. It is already produced, perfected and ready to install.
 

ow346

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Opto Slot interrupter? might work for what you need i dont know though.
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Laplace

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What is the extent of the assignment? So far, I get the pill detector and the pill counter. But, "an automatic counting and bottling tablet system" would necessarily include a pill transport and dropping mechanism, and some sort of bottle transport/conveyor. Are you required to design the entire mechanism, or merely simulate an electrical interface to these mechanical components?
 
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