Videos - The Coin Bot

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00:00:00	in this video I'm going to continue working on the coin sorting mechanism that I showed you in the last video I'm actually going to do some demonstrations in the software to kind of put it through its Paces now off camera I've
00:00:11	already written three scripts that will demonstrate some features of the coin order so I'm going to demonstrate those three pieces of software in the first one you can hit the play button on the python script and each time you do that
00:00:24	it'll move to the next position on the coin stacker as I've demonstrated here you can see each time I hit the play button it moves forward to the next position now the second piece of software that I wrote builds off of the
00:00:41	first only it does everything automatically it is going to move to each one of the positions in the coin stacker all 11 of them and it does so automatically pausing for one second in between each one that's to demonstrate
00:00:55	that the stepper motor is accurate and it can accurately locate each one of the positions above the coin stacker the third piece of software that I wrote builds off of the second only this time it allows for user input the coin sorter
00:01:09	starts in the home position above that drawer that I showed you in the last video and it asks the user what position you'd like to move to next and when I hit position number seven it will move backwards towards that position because
00:01:21	that's the most efficient way to move and then when I hit eight it'll move forward again one position and again I can go back to position one if I hit 11 it'll then go backwards one and if I go to position five it will
00:01:44	rotate in the most efficient manner to get there so you can switch between positions above the coin stacker and it will accurately move there and choose the most efficient path to get there so in the final coin bot I picture the AI
00:01:58	deciding which position to move the coin order to and dropping the coin into a specific bin based on its value and I think these pieces of software that I wrote are a good stepping stone towards that but I think
00:02:11	that's enough for this video this is day 27 of a 30-day challenge I've given myself to post a video to YouTube Every Day in the month of September and as always if you have suggestions and feedback from me about how I can build a
00:02:20	better coin sorder or make better videos please leave a comment down below but for now that's my two cents thanks for watching everyone stay awesome