This robotic system routinely scans movie slides by itself

Earlier than the arrival of digital cameras, individuals used movie to seize their most cherished recollections. And these days, there’s a rush to transform them right into a digital format earlier than they inevitably degrade and change into unrecognizable. Movie slides particularly have a significant disadvantage in that they’re separate, particular person items of movie positioned onto small playing cards which makes scanning them manually a really lengthy and costly course of. To be able to digitize his household’s assortment of movie slides, Hackster.io consumer Chris was capable of create a robotic that automates this tedious activity.

Many of the robotic was made out of an previous, repurposed Anet A8 Plus 3D printer as Chris saved the prevailing X and Z axes whereas changing the printhead with a customized toolhead. He swapped out the earlier management circuitry within the printer for an Arduino Mega 2560 and mixed the board with a number of stepper motor drivers. The gripper module was mounted to the X axis carriage and is answerable for choosing up slides from beneath and transferring them into and out of the scanner to the aspect. A number of sensors throughout the toolhead, together with a pair of load cells and a time-of-flight module, help in guaranteeing the robotic doesn’t collide with the scanner and probably injury it.

For extra particulars on this challenge, take a look at Chris’ write-up right here and watch his video beneath.