I fix coin sorters for large grocery stores. The dirtiness of coins cause issues even in the best sorters. The best coin sorter i have worked on uses a rotating near virticle rubber wheel to get the coins on their side, then it will sort by height by knocking the tallest off the track first then getting smaller. Hard to explain in a RUclips comment. Great first attempt
It's comforting to hear from a professional, that it is actually quite a hard job to do. This makes this early prototype sorter from lego parts even better.
The dirt slowly rubbing off of the coins was my first thought too. You can tell at the beginning they definitely slid much faster and then it got progressively slower the more times he tried it
For the problem with the coins getting stuck maybe take away the turn since it's losing a lot of it's momentum while going into that turn. And maybe add some sort of power function system that is able to vibrate the actual sorter so that even if the coins do get stuck they'll eventually fall into the desired slots. As for the coin being on top of each other maybe you could have some sort of system that will allow only the thickness of one coin to go into it although this could pose a threat to the machine being constantly jammed. I hope you develop this project further as I don't see too many coin sorting machines out of lego.
The turn makes sure that all the coins are sliding against the far railing, because otherwise coins could be a little off the rail and miss their slot.
Right, and to follow up on this, had US kept using silver, the nickel and penny would have been really small. US was forced to use different metal for nickel and penny so they are bigger than a dime
Since I've always found coin materials interesting, some more info. The US silver coins used to be a silver copper alloy (for durability). Modern silver US coins (except nickels) are now a copper core with a copper nickel alloy cladding (changed since the value of silver increased in the 60s). The modern "gold" dollar coins actually have no gold in them. Older gold coins were a gold copper alloy (copper for durability again), and silver dollar coins were made for a long time too. The modern "gold coins are a copper core clad in manganese brass (a copper and manganese alloy). Nickels were originally called half dimes, and were established as "nickels" in 1866 being made primarily of nickel, and modern versions have a higher nickel percentage than other "silver" coins. Pennies varied a lot over time, starting as 100% copper, and varying greatly as metal prices and demand shifted, including a steel penny used in WW2, now almost entirely zinc with a thin copper coating.
If you look at the Japanese ticket machines or tills, you may find some inspiration: you can throw money inside and the machine will perfectly count the money and also identifies the ticket you are using in-between the coins (for machines in buses, where you throw the money and ticket all together before exiting the bus, to demonstrate you paid the fare). Anyway, it's basically a funnel, but designed in a way that the weight will not jam everything.
The coins are stacking because they climb over the ones that are stuck. Keep them from getting stuck. A small motor with a counter-balanced weight on the end can be used for a vibrator. Tilt the assembly slightly vertical more yes, but with the angle you need to get them to roll by themselves you will not have as much help from gravity, they will most likely have too much speed and roll right past the hole. As someone said, put a funnel and take out the turn. I would add the vibrator to the finish line of the assembly and a tapered gate with fingers at the bridge from the funnel, preferably with flexible material to help reduce jamming.
If you say the half-dollars are huge, image the ike dollar (eisenhower dollars). They were the dollar coins before the sacagawea dollars and the small presidential ones. They were twice the size of half-dollars (in weight). Also, dimes are the smallest because before, they were worth their weight in silver. So the weight of the coin was the value. However, for pennies and nickels the metal was not the same.
One of my first custom LEGO builds (i.e. not following instructions included in a set) was a coin sorter that could differentiate between 2€, 1€ and 20cent coins. It worked flawlessly and is still standing as part of the wall of a little LEGO house in the attic in pur house back in Germany.
Coin sizes were set when it took $0.10 of silver, pennies were made of copper and the size was the amount of copper to equal $0.01. The Nickle was how much nickle was worth $0.05. And so on. Now none of the coins are made of solid whatever substance, and it costs far more to make a penny than what it is worth.
Oh man this is the kind of project I like doing with patrons at my library (mostly kids but I wish more adults would get into it too - my programs are designed for certain age ranges but all of them are open to all ages). Yeah I've decided. We're gonna do this project for one of our lego clubs.
ill do my best to explain why the nickel is bigger then the dime. in the early days of the usa, the coins were worth the metal content, so a dime was made of 10 cents in silver, etc. and we had a half dime, whih was smaller, but worth 5 cents, and in 1866, silver was going up in value, so we moved over to making nickels, which were worth 5c in nickel, im glad this guy isnt sorting the 3 cent pieces and the 2 cent piece. that would make it a lot harder. nice sorter, gets a sub from me
Make it drop into a bigger container so that there is space for more coins, make the whole system less compact and make more room for the slides that move them around, put the whole thing on a shaking platform to force them to glide even when they are dirty, and it should all work 🤗 Then add a feeder 😉
For an autofeeder if you have a box with a spinning part in the bottom, like a stirring to push them onto the slide part. Maybe a slightly angled ledge above the pusher so a few fall down there at a time so they weight doesn't just jam the whole thing.
The only issue is that two dimes could fit in the same slot vertically as a quarter or anything larger. But other than that it might work. Thanks for the idea!
Id suggest putting a layer of 6 by whatever plates over the top instead of lining it with 1 by whatever smooth plates. This way, only so many coins can go through. Also having a side bar attached to it to store the coins on their sides and moving the slot to the side should ensure that only one coin goes through almost every time.
The sizes are exactly proportionate from when they were silver. A silver quarter weighs 2.5 times more than a silver dime. A silver half dollar weighs 2 times more than a silver quarter and 5 times more than a silver dime. A silver dollar weighs twice as much as a silver half dollar, four times as much as a quarter, and ten times as much as a silver dime. Pennies and nickels weren't silver, so their size was not dictated by their weight.
During WWII copper was an essential war material. As a result, nickels had silver in them for some years. In 1943 cents were zinc-coated steel, making them much lighter.
You should definitely build a cool and uniform outer-casing for the internal machine (everything you’ve already built) housed within a cool Lego box. You can even include snot brick character elements to enhance the look. Another idea would be to implement a way to add empty coin rolls to be filled by your Lego sorter just like real ones do. Overall INCREDIBLE build. So amazed and impressed!!!! Keep up the incredible work!!!
Dimes and dollar coins are smaller than coins that have a lesser value because of a desire to maintain a scaling property between dimes, quarters, and half-dollars. Each of those 3 coins contains the same blend of metallic alloys (the other coins are different blends.) Further, each of these three coin's masses scale exactly with their values. I.e. a half-dollar has twice the mass of a quarter and a quarter has 2.5x the mass of a dime. That way, any given weight of dimes, quarters, and half-dollars has a set value, regardless of the mix of the coins. If you had some amount of those three coins, any equal value substitution corresponds to an equal weight substitution. You can take a half-dollar from your pile of coins and replace it with five dimes and the value and weight of the pile remain the same.
To help with coins getting stuck down the ramp, try rubbing paraffin wax, or a candle, on the ramp then polish it off with a clean cloth. Good job on the sorter!
If you want to input a bunch of coins at once you should make a slanted spread plate, where you dump a few coins on and spread them out by swiping the hill of coins around, when they're flat they can slide into a slit at the lowest corner to go into the sorter one at a time. And I'd recommend you make it a rolling sorter, because I built one some years ago and it sorts the coins while they roll down a ~45° slope and lean against the wall of the completely-vertical, 1-stud-wide channel. I got them all leaned on the same wall by letting them slide down a short ramp into the sorting channel.
One thing to try would be to have a belt system that rests on top of the track you have made, to push/pull coins to their slots, and it would reduce the chance of coins getting stacked on top of eachother, as for the feeding system, it could also work with like a funnel that flattened out, with part of a belt pulling coins in one at a time
Maybe a light spray with silicone oil and polishing off with a clean, lint-free cloth might help getting the coins down the ramp. Also, a small battery-powered vibration motor connected to the ramp might be helpful as well. Just some thoughts from somebody who tried something similar for Deutschmarks... 😄
make is so that there is a hole in the bottom of a tube/cylinder and the coins drop onto a platform. There is a sliding thing on the platform that pushes the coins into a seperate chute where it falls into the sorting mechanism. This is the simplest way I can think of, and it allows the coins to enter the sorting mechanism one by one
Track should be oriented vertically, with a slight slant backwards, to guide the coins into their correct chute. That's how older vending machines operated to deal with dirty and corroded coins.
Cool. I had a coin sorter that sorted them into cylinders that were the same size as coin roll papers. I don't really interact with physical money much anymore.
For batch sorting, I would have a gently slopped shelf in the shape of a Y which funnels coins to drop off the edge vertically onto a ramp so they then roll down the ramp towards the sorting holes. There would need to be some way to vibrate the shelf so that the coins slowly trickle forward.
I would put a bar across the top to make sure coins dont stack on top of each other when sorting, (like the height of 1 coin) that's how some coins were able to bypass thier respective slots.
As a child, I've tried something similar, but using weight to select the different coins. But I also struggled on sorting them by value and having multiple at once...
This is a pretty good attempt at a coin sorter, I think if you use gravity better and tilt the slopes further and more steeply, most of the issues of things getting stuck are solved. Also, making a curved path for things that have to go round, instead of slopes falling into slopes will lose less momentum, a sort of playground slide if you will, then getting the whole contraption higher up and having bigger containers will make sure there will be no clog of coins at the bottom. Lastly, having a more stable base shouldn't be too hard to accomplish, the whole thing looked pretty flimsy with the awkward angled legs. This was a fun experiment, thanks for posting it. It might be a fun idea, if you have the time and are willing to re-iterate on your design and make a second or third build after this, trying to fix the issues that you encountered. The whole idea of making such a project is improving while you do it and I think you did a great job at mentioning the current flaws. Also, as a general rule for a LEGO channel, having a nice looking color design is a huge plus. Just invest in the most common bricks in 2 or 3 colors, so you can at least build something that doesn't look haphazard. I'm not a huge brickowner myself, but for such a relative small build, it shouldn't be too hard to get something done in one or 2 base colors. Then again, don't take the criticism too harshly, this was a great idea and some very smart solutions for a functioning first design!
Huge props for using a Pick-a-Brick cup to hold the coins. Also, I wonder how many people who weren't already familiar with the concept of Studs Not On Top thought, "What's a snot brick?"
Yeah, I needed a container for them and I just grabbed a pick a brick cup. You're right though, I should probably make things like snot bricks a little more obvious to the non hard core Lego fans 😂
No coin sorter (that I’ve seen for home use) is perfect. This looks like it works pretty decently. One change I would suggest is to make the entire thing taller. This will give you more room in the individual bays to hold more coins. Maybe you can tune it so that each bay holds exactly one roll of whatever the coin is?
Idea: Extend on the slots where the money goes by attaching containers for them to drop in, because you can’t fit much in how it is. You would obviously need to secure it aswell.
To help the problem with the stuck coins you can put a spinning fan kind to act like a spinning door to push the coins and to make the process smoother
I got curious about this video because I made a coin sorter of my own awhile ago, and to this day I've been upgrading it a lot. It's now the size of a basketball, but as a cube, and the lower half is all for storage (so I don't have to worry about too many coins like you did with the pennies). The upper half is split into to other parts, one that is drawers to actually hold dollar bills from $1 to $100, and the other part is what actually sorts the coins. The sorting system is also vertical, like what you were talking about at the end of this video, and I have no issues with the coins getting stuck or not moving all together, but that also has to do with the angle that the sorting part is at. I know I had to tinker with how the coins are sorted, mainly the penny and dime because of their close size, so I had to actually improvise and make some kinda weird formation that catches pennies to keep them going but the dimes end up falling down. In the storage, I only have pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters (half and full dollar coins didn't seem worth it because I, like most people, don't have many of those), and each coin has about a quarter of the 32x32 (I think that's the size anyway) baseplate that the entire structure is built upon. I've also built a few other compartments, such as one to hold a brick separator, another holds two rods (one's hard and the other's flimsy, and they're for unclogging anything), and the newest one that I added on actually holds my wallet (I thought it was a fitting addition since this whole machine now has all of my money that I have that's not in my bank account). Since I've done so many tiny tweaks to the sorting of the machine, the rods and the brick separator hardly ever get used anymore because my machine is so precise and I haven't had a clog in maybe a year now, if not longer. I've also placed the thing on another identical sized baseplate with a rotating piece and tiles surrounding it, so now the 20lbs machine can rotate on my desk (I had to also place a little grippy pad thing underneath the whole machine because else the base part couldn't actually rotate under it's own weight). I think you got a good start to a great coin sorter, and it was really cool to see another person's perspective on how one might build one of these.
How about putting a lot of wheels on top to slide the coins and it uses springs too to get a good grip on the coins Put a slope after each hole so the coins has less chance of going over the hole
You should definitely, 'perfect,' this. But, correctly. You made this more complex than it needs to be. As a child, I actually had a bank with the drop slots, in the correct order ... dimes, pennies, nickles, quarters - I don't recall if it had half dollars but I do know it didn't have dollar coins. It did have a separate dollar bill slot. It also held enough of each coin to fill coin wrappers. Coins could be dirty and no need for an automatic sorter to dump multiple coins at once. It's not a machine to count how much money a vending machine collected.
You could add a very small vibration technique (like a game controller offset spinning weight) to gently shake the machine and keep the coins moving the whole time.
I built one about a decade ago. My needed extra engineering because I didnt have technic or snot pieces. I cant dump a bunch in, they have to be fed one at a time, but it never jams, never gets stuck, and never sends a coin in the wrong chute. If you'd like to see how i did that let me know. I later made one out of wood based on the same concept that I actually use. The lego one sits in a cabinet.
The reason why dimes are so much smaller is because dimes used to be made of silver, which was much more valuable than the copper or nickel that pennies and nickels used to be made of.
The reason the dime is smaller than the penny and nickel is because the dime used to be made of coin silver and it was once 1/10th of an ounce of coin silver (an ounce being a dollar of silver). Pennies were once entirely made of copper and were valued at a cent and a little bit over (the extra amount of the penny value was supposed to help pay off the national debt). Nickels are (perhaps unsurprisingly) mainly made of nickel and zinc. The quarter was also intended as a silver coin and once had a weight of 0.22 ounces. (being slightly less than a quarter ounce of coin silver). The Kennedy half dollar was originally a silver coin having a little bit over a third of an ounce of coin silver. Of course, today's coins do not have anywhere near the same intrinsic value in metal as most coins are now entirely alloys of nickel, copper, and zinc.
If you want to put more than one coin at a time, just make the mouth area bigger. Like a longer shoot that starts wide and gets narrow where the coins enter the sorter.
Have you ever been to a planetarium? They tend to have a black hole simulator you can run coins on. When it gets to the bottom the coins are moving flat. Coins also don't pile up on each other. If you find a way to use centrifugal force, you might be able to sort multiple coins at once. Try using clear pieces. It will make troubleshooting easier. Maybe make the chambers round so the coins land flat.
Right now you can fix this using gravity you can make the coins sideways it a really good idea, you want to make most of them drop down not in an angle, SO you can make 1 of the coin go around another instead of 2 switching with another this makes it more consistent, and reduce jamming problem. If you can make a thing more simple, do it. complexity is harder to do and comes with more problem.
Looking forward to a more reliable version of this if you plan on making one in the future! Maybe make a color scheme, more reliable storage, and coin sorter on top??? 🤔
the reason it started having issues was probably less about the coins being dirty and more about the overall weight of the system stopping it from shaking and letting the coins move more freely . you could test again with it emptied out and see if it starts jamming around the same volume
Great first attempt. Would love to see one with a crazy mechanism like a pendulum dropping coins. I think if the top tray was also at a 45 degree angle so coins rolled and slip, you would get more consistent sorting. Also, why not build it high enough to let coins fall into paper rolls?
I fix coin sorters for large grocery stores. The dirtiness of coins cause issues even in the best sorters. The best coin sorter i have worked on uses a rotating near virticle rubber wheel to get the coins on their side, then it will sort by height by knocking the tallest off the track first then getting smaller. Hard to explain in a RUclips comment. Great first attempt
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
It's comforting to hear from a professional, that it is actually quite a hard job to do. This makes this early prototype sorter from lego parts even better.
The dirt slowly rubbing off of the coins was my first thought too. You can tell at the beginning they definitely slid much faster and then it got progressively slower the more times he tried it
I've been working with huge coin sorters, I mean industrial size, and they still get clogged up by dirt. Cleaning them everyday was nasty.
This comment should be pinned.
It's great and useful info to help us all understand better
For the problem with the coins getting stuck maybe take away the turn since it's losing a lot of it's momentum while going into that turn. And maybe add some sort of power function system that is able to vibrate the actual sorter so that even if the coins do get stuck they'll eventually fall into the desired slots. As for the coin being on top of each other maybe you could have some sort of system that will allow only the thickness of one coin to go into it although this could pose a threat to the machine being constantly jammed. I hope you develop this project further as I don't see too many coin sorting machines out of lego.
or just make the flat pieces on the sorter thinner so that there is less surface area on the coin and it will slide better
The turn makes sure that all the coins are sliding against the far railing, because otherwise coins could be a little off the rail and miss their slot.
My idea is to put water on the lego so it helps the coin move
@@h1ghdipp3r32 I don't understand
Because dimes used to be silver, whichnisnworth more than copper and nickle, so a smaller amount is more valuable.
Hey you also accidentally type n instead of putting a space, I do that too lmao
Right, and to follow up on this, had US kept using silver, the nickel and penny would have been really small. US was forced to use different metal for nickel and penny so they are bigger than a dime
Bruh sometimes it's a c or a x
Since I've always found coin materials interesting, some more info.
The US silver coins used to be a silver copper alloy (for durability). Modern silver US coins (except nickels) are now a copper core with a copper nickel alloy cladding (changed since the value of silver increased in the 60s). The modern "gold" dollar coins actually have no gold in them. Older gold coins were a gold copper alloy (copper for durability again), and silver dollar coins were made for a long time too. The modern "gold coins are a copper core clad in manganese brass (a copper and manganese alloy). Nickels were originally called half dimes, and were established as "nickels" in 1866 being made primarily of nickel, and modern versions have a higher nickel percentage than other "silver" coins. Pennies varied a lot over time, starting as 100% copper, and varying greatly as metal prices and demand shifted, including a steel penny used in WW2, now almost entirely zinc with a thin copper coating.
“IM HIGHLY OFFENDED” (inanimate insanity Nick le)
If you look at the Japanese ticket machines or tills, you may find some inspiration: you can throw money inside and the machine will perfectly count the money and also identifies the ticket you are using in-between the coins (for machines in buses, where you throw the money and ticket all together before exiting the bus, to demonstrate you paid the fare).
Anyway, it's basically a funnel, but designed in a way that the weight will not jam everything.
Or put the coins in the machine at the bank for free! Or dont horde them!
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 Legit but...where is the fun then?
Now make a machine to sort legos. Out of coins.
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The coins are stacking because they climb over the ones that are stuck. Keep them from getting stuck.
A small motor with a counter-balanced weight on the end can be used for a vibrator.
Tilt the assembly slightly vertical more yes, but with the angle you need to get them to roll by themselves you will not have as much help from gravity, they will most likely have too much speed and roll right past the hole.
As someone said, put a funnel and take out the turn.
I would add the vibrator to the finish line of the assembly and a tapered gate with fingers at the bridge from the funnel, preferably with flexible material to help reduce jamming.
If you say the half-dollars are huge, image the ike dollar (eisenhower dollars). They were the dollar coins before the sacagawea dollars and the small presidential ones. They were twice the size of half-dollars (in weight). Also, dimes are the smallest because before, they were worth their weight in silver. So the weight of the coin was the value. However, for pennies and nickels the metal was not the same.
I have one of those!
How come your comment is already edited, but still has the ugly, ugly mistake of "there" when "their" should be used instead?
@@ME-kd1ko You are right, I will fix it.
One of my first custom LEGO builds (i.e. not following instructions included in a set) was a coin sorter that could differentiate between 2€, 1€ and 20cent coins. It worked flawlessly and is still standing as part of the wall of a little LEGO house in the attic in pur house back in Germany.
Coin sizes were set when it took $0.10 of silver, pennies were made of copper and the size was the amount of copper to equal $0.01. The Nickle was how much nickle was worth $0.05. And so on. Now none of the coins are made of solid whatever substance, and it costs far more to make a penny than what it is worth.
I thought the whole point of sandwich coins was to reduce the cost of minting...
Most coin sorting banks don't sort by value. They sort by size. So the dime would be the first bin while the 50¢ piece would be on the end.
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Sorting by size would be much simpler to design and build, but BrickStudios went the extra mile!
😱 What keyboard combination gives the cent sign?
@@verttikoo2052 Windows: With NumLock key enabled: Hold the Alt key, type 0162 on the keypad.
Oh man this is the kind of project I like doing with patrons at my library (mostly kids but I wish more adults would get into it too - my programs are designed for certain age ranges but all of them are open to all ages). Yeah I've decided. We're gonna do this project for one of our lego clubs.
Glad to have given you the idea! Hopefully they enjoy it!
ill do my best to explain why the nickel is bigger then the dime. in the early days of the usa, the coins were worth the metal content, so a dime was made of 10 cents in silver, etc. and we had a half dime, whih was smaller, but worth 5 cents, and in 1866, silver was going up in value, so we moved over to making nickels, which were worth 5c in nickel, im glad this guy isnt sorting the 3 cent pieces and the 2 cent piece. that would make it a lot harder. nice sorter, gets a sub from me
Oh wow, that makes a lot more sense! Thank you!
I like your comment
Thanks for the explanation!
I came here before you finished and yes I agree, you should have it so they roll more vertical instead of sliding.
Make it drop into a bigger container so that there is space for more coins, make the whole system less compact and make more room for the slides that move them around, put the whole thing on a shaking platform to force them to glide even when they are dirty, and it should all work 🤗 Then add a feeder 😉
Why the fake build in the thumbnail
So true tho
for clickbait
@@your_local_wattsonmain yeah, well at least for me it made me block the channel
@@NattiNekoMaid it’s not that serious 💀🙏
There's no way you thought that that thumbnail build would work 💀
Great video, but please don't use click bait thumbnail
How is that clickbait
Because the thumbnail isn't actually what they built.
@@Jiangster but its used for the same Purpose.
Where's the scene from the thumbnail?
clickbait
duh
For an autofeeder if you have a box with a spinning part in the bottom, like a stirring to push them onto the slide part. Maybe a slightly angled ledge above the pusher so a few fall down there at a time so they weight doesn't just jam the whole thing.
The only issue is that two dimes could fit in the same slot vertically as a quarter or anything larger. But other than that it might work. Thanks for the idea!
Id suggest putting a layer of 6 by whatever plates over the top instead of lining it with 1 by whatever smooth plates. This way, only so many coins can go through. Also having a side bar attached to it to store the coins on their sides and moving the slot to the side should ensure that only one coin goes through almost every time.
The sizes are exactly proportionate from when they were silver. A silver quarter weighs 2.5 times more than a silver dime. A silver half dollar weighs 2 times more than a silver quarter and 5 times more than a silver dime. A silver dollar weighs twice as much as a silver half dollar, four times as much as a quarter, and ten times as much as a silver dime. Pennies and nickels weren't silver, so their size was not dictated by their weight.
During WWII copper was an essential war material. As a result, nickels had silver in them for some years. In 1943 cents were zinc-coated steel, making them much lighter.
I’d make a ramp leading up to the coin inserter which would also add momentum but still sort them on by one.
You should definitely build a cool and uniform outer-casing for the internal machine (everything you’ve already built) housed within a cool Lego box. You can even include snot brick character elements to enhance the look.
Another idea would be to implement a way to add empty coin rolls to be filled by your Lego sorter just like real ones do. Overall INCREDIBLE build. So amazed and impressed!!!! Keep up the incredible work!!!
A working coin lego sorter would be much more impressive 😅
My pride and joy as a kid was a candy machine that wouldn't work without the right coin.
Dimes and dollar coins are smaller than coins that have a lesser value because of a desire to maintain a scaling property between dimes, quarters, and half-dollars. Each of those 3 coins contains the same blend of metallic alloys (the other coins are different blends.) Further, each of these three coin's masses scale exactly with their values. I.e. a half-dollar has twice the mass of a quarter and a quarter has 2.5x the mass of a dime. That way, any given weight of dimes, quarters, and half-dollars has a set value, regardless of the mix of the coins. If you had some amount of those three coins, any equal value substitution corresponds to an equal weight substitution. You can take a half-dollar from your pile of coins and replace it with five dimes and the value and weight of the pile remain the same.
Maybe use Lego motors to add vibration to a coin hopper and make the exit only one coin thick?
This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen
thats cool!
maybe change the tubes to drop into containers so coins wont jam
The video had everything except the thumnail
Reminds me of this book I used to have when I was younger, where it showed you how to make 50 lego machines. It was awesome.
To help with coins getting stuck down the ramp, try rubbing paraffin wax, or a candle, on the ramp then polish it off with a clean cloth. Good job on the sorter!
If you want to input a bunch of coins at once you should make a slanted spread plate, where you dump a few coins on and spread them out by swiping the hill of coins around, when they're flat they can slide into a slit at the lowest corner to go into the sorter one at a time. And I'd recommend you make it a rolling sorter, because I built one some years ago and it sorts the coins while they roll down a ~45° slope and lean against the wall of the completely-vertical, 1-stud-wide channel. I got them all leaned on the same wall by letting them slide down a short ramp into the sorting channel.
This reminds me of my old LEGO projects when I had a huge box full of LEGO. Did very similar things. I vaguely remember doing some coin sorter too.
One thing to try would be to have a belt system that rests on top of the track you have made, to push/pull coins to their slots, and it would reduce the chance of coins getting stacked on top of eachother, as for the feeding system, it could also work with like a funnel that flattened out, with part of a belt pulling coins in one at a time
Maybe a light spray with silicone oil and polishing off with a clean, lint-free cloth might help getting the coins down the ramp. Also, a small battery-powered vibration motor connected to the ramp might be helpful as well. Just some thoughts from somebody who tried something similar for Deutschmarks... 😄
A bartender in the U.S. once accidentally gave me a Deutschmark with my change instead of a quarter. I added it to my international coin collection!
Amazing bulid with Lego! it may work better if make it a more vertical so the coins could roll and reduce the friction
Nice work! I also made one a while back, the 5C and the quarter were also very close in diameter haha
make is so that there is a hole in the bottom of a tube/cylinder and the coins drop onto a platform. There is a sliding thing on the platform that pushes the coins into a seperate chute where it falls into the sorting mechanism. This is the simplest way I can think of, and it allows the coins to enter the sorting mechanism one by one
So many people here offered there solutions! Great teamwork all around! 😀😃😄👏👏👏
Just subbed! nice video!
Track should be oriented vertically, with a slight slant backwards, to guide the coins into their correct chute. That's how older vending machines operated to deal with dirty and corroded coins.
Oh my gosh!! You are amazing. Great job.
Something like this would be neat for an actual Lego set.
Minus the Dollar and Half-Dollar, who even has those anymore?
I have a bag full of dollar coins
this was fun to watch. I'm glad you kept in the parts where the coins got stuck, shows not everything is perfect!
I respect the random colors
Honestly it kinda annoys me
This is a cool idea! Keep working on it!
In some of coin sorter, the machine vibrates to avoid stuck coins. It's the same as you slam the desk with your hand.
Cool. I had a coin sorter that sorted them into cylinders that were the same size as coin roll papers. I don't really interact with physical money much anymore.
For batch sorting, I would have a gently slopped shelf in the shape of a Y which funnels coins to drop off the edge vertically onto a ramp so they then roll down the ramp towards the sorting holes. There would need to be some way to vibrate the shelf so that the coins slowly trickle forward.
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I would put a bar across the top to make sure coins dont stack on top of each other when sorting, (like the height of 1 coin) that's how some coins were able to bypass thier respective slots.
As a child, I've tried something similar, but using weight to select the different coins.
But I also struggled on sorting them by value and having multiple at once...
This is so fun. I appreciate you showing what went right as well as when it goes wrong
If you wanted no other coins in an area, get a cheap vibration system to help
It kind of defeats the purpose of sorting coins if you have to put them in one at a time.
Still, very cool. Good work!
Yeah, if I make a part 2 to this then I'll definitely try to find a way to do it.
u dont have to look at them tho
This is a pretty good attempt at a coin sorter, I think if you use gravity better and tilt the slopes further and more steeply, most of the issues of things getting stuck are solved.
Also, making a curved path for things that have to go round, instead of slopes falling into slopes will lose less momentum, a sort of playground slide if you will, then getting the whole contraption higher up and having bigger containers will make sure there will be no clog of coins at the bottom. Lastly, having a more stable base shouldn't be too hard to accomplish, the whole thing looked pretty flimsy with the awkward angled legs.
This was a fun experiment, thanks for posting it. It might be a fun idea, if you have the time and are willing to re-iterate on your design and make a second or third build after this, trying to fix the issues that you encountered. The whole idea of making such a project is improving while you do it and I think you did a great job at mentioning the current flaws.
Also, as a general rule for a LEGO channel, having a nice looking color design is a huge plus. Just invest in the most common bricks in 2 or 3 colors, so you can at least build something that doesn't look haphazard. I'm not a huge brickowner myself, but for such a relative small build, it shouldn't be too hard to get something done in one or 2 base colors. Then again, don't take the criticism too harshly, this was a great idea and some very smart solutions for a functioning first design!
Keep in mind, the steeper the slope the faster coins will go increasing the chance of the skipping over their respective destination.
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I love how a coin sorter is the one that replaced your most viewed video.
Lego neeeeeds to make this a Lego set
3:27 satisfying
Huge props for using a Pick-a-Brick cup to hold the coins. Also, I wonder how many people who weren't already familiar with the concept of Studs Not On Top thought, "What's a snot brick?"
Yeah, I needed a container for them and I just grabbed a pick a brick cup. You're right though, I should probably make things like snot bricks a little more obvious to the non hard core Lego fans 😂
No coin sorter (that I’ve seen for home use) is perfect. This looks like it works pretty decently. One change I would suggest is to make the entire thing taller. This will give you more room in the individual bays to hold more coins. Maybe you can tune it so that each bay holds exactly one roll of whatever the coin is?
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3:53 made me chuckle 😂😊
Idea: Extend on the slots where the money goes by attaching containers for them to drop in, because you can’t fit much in how it is. You would obviously need to secure it aswell.
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To help the problem with the stuck coins you can put a spinning fan kind to act like a spinning door to push the coins and to make the process smoother
Something like this need to be a set it would sell, as a kid I remember thinking coin sorters were fascinating for some reason.
I got curious about this video because I made a coin sorter of my own awhile ago, and to this day I've been upgrading it a lot. It's now the size of a basketball, but as a cube, and the lower half is all for storage (so I don't have to worry about too many coins like you did with the pennies). The upper half is split into to other parts, one that is drawers to actually hold dollar bills from $1 to $100, and the other part is what actually sorts the coins. The sorting system is also vertical, like what you were talking about at the end of this video, and I have no issues with the coins getting stuck or not moving all together, but that also has to do with the angle that the sorting part is at. I know I had to tinker with how the coins are sorted, mainly the penny and dime because of their close size, so I had to actually improvise and make some kinda weird formation that catches pennies to keep them going but the dimes end up falling down. In the storage, I only have pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters (half and full dollar coins didn't seem worth it because I, like most people, don't have many of those), and each coin has about a quarter of the 32x32 (I think that's the size anyway) baseplate that the entire structure is built upon. I've also built a few other compartments, such as one to hold a brick separator, another holds two rods (one's hard and the other's flimsy, and they're for unclogging anything), and the newest one that I added on actually holds my wallet (I thought it was a fitting addition since this whole machine now has all of my money that I have that's not in my bank account). Since I've done so many tiny tweaks to the sorting of the machine, the rods and the brick separator hardly ever get used anymore because my machine is so precise and I haven't had a clog in maybe a year now, if not longer. I've also placed the thing on another identical sized baseplate with a rotating piece and tiles surrounding it, so now the 20lbs machine can rotate on my desk (I had to also place a little grippy pad thing underneath the whole machine because else the base part couldn't actually rotate under it's own weight). I think you got a good start to a great coin sorter, and it was really cool to see another person's perspective on how one might build one of these.
Coins sliding over the Legos may be abrading the polished finish of the Legos, causing friction
How about putting a lot of wheels on top to slide the coins and it uses springs too to get a good grip on the coins
Put a slope after each hole so the coins has less chance of going over the hole
The coins could be guided past the traps on a conveyor belt and a scanner pushes the coin into the correct opening using flaps.
Idea make the fall slots wider and add a big ramp that should work
I would add a motorized agitator to the top tray, should help the coins feed better - every coin counter/sorter I've used has them.
That was a genius build.
You should definitely, 'perfect,' this. But, correctly. You made this more complex than it needs to be.
As a child, I actually had a bank with the drop slots, in the correct order ... dimes, pennies, nickles, quarters - I don't recall if it had half dollars but I do know it didn't have dollar coins. It did have a separate dollar bill slot. It also held enough of each coin to fill coin wrappers. Coins could be dirty and no need for an automatic sorter to dump multiple coins at once. It's not a machine to count how much money a vending machine collected.
You could add a very small vibration technique (like a game controller offset spinning weight) to gently shake the machine and keep the coins moving the whole time.
I built one about a decade ago. My needed extra engineering because I didnt have technic or snot pieces. I cant dump a bunch in, they have to be fed one at a time, but it never jams, never gets stuck, and never sends a coin in the wrong chute. If you'd like to see how i did that let me know. I later made one out of wood based on the same concept that I actually use. The lego one sits in a cabinet.
The reason why dimes are so much smaller is because dimes used to be made of silver, which was much more valuable than the copper or nickel that pennies and nickels used to be made of.
I was smiling through this entire video haha.
This video should be used as justification for getting rid of the penny permenantly.
If you have them flip an roll on ther side you could make it more efficient and save space for sorting
I actually need a machine like this because my current coin storage method is quite a mess (just throwing them all in a ziploc bag, lol)
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sould add like a roof that if coins gets stacked they fall behind
The reason the dime is smaller than the penny and nickel is because the dime used to be made of coin silver and it was once 1/10th of an ounce of coin silver (an ounce being a dollar of silver). Pennies were once entirely made of copper and were valued at a cent and a little bit over (the extra amount of the penny value was supposed to help pay off the national debt). Nickels are (perhaps unsurprisingly) mainly made of nickel and zinc. The quarter was also intended as a silver coin and once had a weight of 0.22 ounces. (being slightly less than a quarter ounce of coin silver). The Kennedy half dollar was originally a silver coin having a little bit over a third of an ounce of coin silver. Of course, today's coins do not have anywhere near the same intrinsic value in metal as most coins are now entirely alloys of nickel, copper, and zinc.
This is amazing love it,have you conaideredan off balance motor to cause vibration to allow coins to filter in amd prevent getting stuck
Marvellous engineering and build for something that at the end of the day is pretty useless. I love it. :D
Not that bad for a first attempt. I would make it a little larger and steeper to help facilitate the movement of coins.
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If you want to put more than one coin at a time, just make the mouth area bigger. Like a longer shoot that starts wide and gets narrow where the coins enter the sorter.
Have you ever been to a planetarium? They tend to have a black hole simulator you can run coins on. When it gets to the bottom the coins are moving flat. Coins also don't pile up on each other. If you find a way to use centrifugal force, you might be able to sort multiple coins at once. Try using clear pieces. It will make troubleshooting easier. Maybe make the chambers round so the coins land flat.
Right now you can fix this using gravity you can make the coins sideways it a really good idea, you want to make most of them drop down not in an angle, SO you can make 1 of the coin go around another instead of 2 switching with another this makes it more consistent, and reduce jamming problem.
If you can make a thing more simple, do it. complexity is harder to do and comes with more problem.
Looking forward to a more reliable version of this if you plan on making one in the future!
Maybe make a color scheme, more reliable storage, and coin sorter on top???
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the reason it started having issues was probably less about the coins being dirty and more about the overall weight of the system stopping it from shaking and letting the coins move more freely . you could test again with it emptied out and see if it starts jamming around the same volume
This is impressive because it sorts by size, but then ARRANGES them by value.
You don’t have to pay for coin sorters😂
Dude you're awesome I don't know how anyone could do that
Amazing surprised you don’t have more subscribers 😊
Great first attempt. Would love to see one with a crazy mechanism like a pendulum dropping coins. I think if the top tray was also at a 45 degree angle so coins rolled and slip, you would get more consistent sorting. Also, why not build it high enough to let coins fall into paper rolls?
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For the dirty coins problem, just add soap and water to the slide to make it slippery.