I am a robotics teacher. This will be extremely handy when we go to take apart our robots. Sorting nuts and bolts is the most tedious part of my job. I may need to modify the files, but thank you so much for this.
Nicely done. You had me at, "instead of spending 2 minutes sorting them manually, i will spend hundreds of hours building a device that does the job for me." Truer words have never been said. 👍
That's how complex renders are made these days: you print out the scene, let physics do the baking, and film it. Scan the scene with a 3d scanner, then texture and render the frames. Voila 😂 This is some impressive piece of engineering, btw!
Now make a pre-sorter that sorts different diameters. So your desk looks like "Let's Game it out" Satisfactory session when everything is chained together. Oh and everything needs to operated by a single lever of course...
XD Instant Sub. "Instead of spending a few minutes sorting the screws manually, I spent hundreds of hours building a machine that will do it for me". That's modern engineering in a nutshell, and I love it.
GENIUS! at work we'd spend DAYS sorting hardware. What you need now is a dedicated head-sorter and THICKNESS sorter. 10-32, 8-32, 1/4-20, 3/8 panheads, machine screws
All things considered I really don't think you have over engineered this. Compared to other solutions I have seen there are no redundant operations. Well done!
This is cool. Now we just need the following; a way to separate colour (silver and black), head type (pan, countersunk and button), tool type(hex, torx, phillips etc) and nuts by colour, size and type(nylon grip or standard). In any case I will still make this. I will probably motorise it as I like the idea of dumping a handful of bolts in the hopper and coming back later to find them all sorted as if by magic. Really cool work, subbed.
6:51 Small tip for how to remove the bolts from a single container with multiple compartments: Hold something flat over all but the outermost compartment and empty that compartment. Repeat with the second outermost compartment, etc.
All the keyboard cowboys can say how it could be better. I say it's AWESOME and a joy simply to watch the video. I only wish I had your design skills, patience and command of a foreign language. Nicely done, sir. Nicely done indeed.
Probably could add a mechanism to rattle the feed tray to reduce chance it gets stuck there. Maye be for the output make it so barrel that can pick up more than one each pass in case more than one falls in the queue.
Ha! I just said the same thing before looking in the comments. Someone else also suggested a clacker to smack the bottom of the tray to jostle the bolts. I think both ideas are valid, the agitator might be the more elegant and reliable method, though.
Last video of the day and it is such a hidden gem! Love the video and the ingenuity that went into the print. I have the exact same set of M3 screws and I am sure it won't stay as well sorted as it is right now for long. Now... Please create one for M2, M4, M5 screws! And for some bonus problem solving: Perhaps you can put everything into one print! Definitely subscribed and I'm saving your print for later so I have it ready should the need arise.
Holy shit! How do you only have 5k subscribers? Your video production is amazing. The animations are stellar! Great demonstration of your thought processes and problem solving.
Very nice design! Would maybe be an small improvement if you engrave bolt size on the containers so you wont forget when you take multiple containers out or something else. Otherwise have size on both the containers and the big cointainer where they sit in. But this may be a personnal preference.
This was the first video of yours that I watched. YT FINALLY got something correct for this suggestion!! This video alone was worth a sub, but I went back and watched all your previous videos. You've reignited my excitement about 3D printing that other channels haven't been able to do. I much prefer the narrators voice in this video as compared to the first one or two. If this is your voice, please keep using it for all your videos! Wonderful work! Thank you!
Thank you! i had to use the other voice in my first video because i didnt have a good mic ( horrible quality can be heard in my second video) but i was able to improve audio quality quite a bit
Loving it! Maybe after the transition from the bolt being vertical to being picked at oriented in the horizontal: have a little correction chute to correctly catch a receive the bolt before it is allowed to roll down the final ramp. This funnel and final chute helps to collect and prevent jams whilst making sure the cap can be hanging correctly over the support. Maybe there needs to be a gate to limit bolts from having the wrong speed.
awesome job! I'd love to see a part two with a more general solution to the screw/bolt bin that are not just 1 head size/diameter. Maybe just based on weight? Like, the eternal problem many people (like me) have is they have a bucket full of screws/bolts of all sizes, and it's very handy to have around, but the small ones go the the bottom and stuff. It would be nice to be able to sort them in ~5 weight/length classes. Again, awesome video
Thank you! because of the many requests i get i will probably try to make a improved version that supports multiple types of bolts/screws as well as diffrent diameters
Sehr nice! Das hätte ich gebraucht als ich vor einigen Wochen unsere "Schraubenkiste" in der die letzten Jahre so ziemlich alles gelandet ist, "aufgeräumt" habe... 😀 Habe direkt abonniert ❤
So overcomplicated, so much labour to improve the machine, so very german! I LOVE IT! Even the paulaner spezi couldn't be missed. BTW: just another idea to overcomplicate things... what about a linear 2 one-way rotational adapter on the 90º lifter? this way you could just rotate a drum in the same direction on both in and out stroke for an overcomplication perfection machine
Dude that is awesome!!! I have lots of small bolts and nuts of different diameters and materials. Searching for part I need is a mess. An idea for the next project - sorting stuff by mass into say 256 (16x16) boxes by using automated pocket scale.
Shout out to the company I worked for that regularly threw out mixed bolts because inventory didn't want to count them into kits and just stored all 60+ variants in the production area with no controls
great machine, now all we need is a pre sorter that can sort out different diameters from m3 to m10. then this sorter can just be scaled up op match the diameter
I printed a pair of your V1 magnet inserters. They went together perfectly and work great. I don’t have a use for this item, but went ahead and subscribed to your Patreon channel to provide support. Looking forward to seeing your next act of innovation!
This is an amazing idea and I wish I could use it. Since I work in a machine shop, we have so many different sizes of bolts and screws laying around in boxes that this would be a game changer for organizing and resorting them. Unfortunately, while it does sort them, it does so by the length of the bolts and not by the length, the diameter (of either the head or the threads), and the TPI's of the bolts. So, for example, if I had 8 different sizes of bolts and screws that I needed to sort, that means I would need 16 of these sorters to cover the two different TPI's we have for each type of bolt or screw. I suppose I could just use a thread gage or a bolt checker to separate each size and TPI's before putting them into this sorter but at that point, I might as well just use a ruler at the same time to figure out the lengths. On a side note, it would be interesting to see if you can modify this design to have an attachment for a servo or some other type of motor and you just use gear ratios to control the speed of everything so nobody has to worry about programming the motor. They would just need to purchase the motor off Amazon, attach it, turn it on, and go.
As modeller i have currently "a ton" of these bolts waiting to be sorted ... but ... i am gonna print and try this machine insted of a boring hour in my workshop ;-) 😃
You could probably add a circular agitator to the hopper that spins with the push of the lever back and forth to keep from manually having to agitate the bolts.
This is amazing! I also tried to automate it in some way and was about at the point where you were at 4:00. Your idea with the rotating drum is genius! I still have not given up on an add-on for my sorter to automatically sort them. I guess I need to steal some design choices from you! 😂 Great video and thank you for sharing! 🎉
Super gelöst. Ich persönlich würde den Schiebe-Mechanismus als rotierenden Mechanismus machen (Handkurbel) und im Mechanismus ein bisschen LKW-Fett (ganz wenig) anschlieren, um alles flutschi zu halten.
@@venyel Sadly i dont think you can do that - and after some thoughts, this design might have a small issue - canonly handle round heads, would be nice to see if it handle hex-heads as well...
You can greatly simplify the machine if you don't care about the final orientation of the bolts. Instead of doing two 90-degree rotations along two axes, you can do a single z-axis rotation on the bolts keeping the initial horizontal orientation. This would remove some potential failure points and you could operate the device faster. To scale this to an industrial level, make a larger initial funnel and replace the small recipient trays with tubular chutes that go into larger end-recipients. This whole assembly would be best done with laser-cut sheet metal.
not sure if i understand it correctly but if i keep the horizontal orientation they will be aligned in 2 diffrent ways. the head is either looking to the left side or to the right side. and for the sorter to work its required that they are all aligned the same
Have you considered trying to make the sorting mechanism into a spinning mechanism? Or some other way to make the motion continuous instead of oscillating? It might be easy to add a crank and gears to this, and at that point you can just hook up a cheap slow motor
Alright, you just forgot to add a motor and controller to make it automatic. Joking 😂. This is an awesome design, whenever I get more bolts to fix my 3D printer, I will try make a motorised version. Can't beat my laziness. And maybe also something on the tray to always be stirring the screws. After finding the optimal speed, all the caveats you noticed will disappear ❤
Absolutely love the problem solving in this project, and the video production is amazing!!
Thank you! really means alot to get good feedback from such an experienced creator!
Mr. Staton made a honor posting here because EmGI deserve it.
Hundreds of hours of design to save 2 minutes? I'M IN !
Ditto.
Yeah, but it's 2min saved for everyone who makes and uses it.
That's the spirit.
The urge to spend hours to fix a minutes problem
2 minutes if you have 10 bolts. now to 10,000
I am a robotics teacher. This will be extremely handy when we go to take apart our robots. Sorting nuts and bolts is the most tedious part of my job. I may need to modify the files, but thank you so much for this.
Nicely done. You had me at, "instead of spending 2 minutes sorting them manually, i will spend hundreds of hours building a device that does the job for me." Truer words have never been said. 👍
Absolutely
And problem solving is wayyyy more fun than bolt sorting.
Same goes for software engineering: "Five hours of debugging can save you a good 5 min of reading documentation" 😅
Rendering the Animations almost killed my PC so i did the necessary and bought a New 3D printer
I had a similar problem, I needed new tires for my car, so I bought AMS
That's how complex renders are made these days: you print out the scene, let physics do the baking, and film it. Scan the scene with a 3d scanner, then texture and render the frames. Voila 😂
This is some impressive piece of engineering, btw!
Lol
What software did you use for the animations? They look amazing
Thank you! they were done in blender 4.2
Now make a pre-sorter that sorts different diameters.
So your desk looks like "Let's Game it out" Satisfactory session when everything is chained together.
Oh and everything needs to operated by a single lever of course...
The lever must be operated by an AI-controlled motor that determines peak velocity for all the sorters simultaneously.
You'll need another tier for threads per inch.
@@tommy8716These are metric bolts, so it'll be thread pitch rather than tpi (e.g. 1.5mm per thread)
@@HydroculatorYou don't need AI for that.
@@bobweiram6321but AI is an important unnecessary added complication!!
Amazing project!
Danke :)
You know its gonna be a great video if a Paulaner Spezi is opened.
XD Instant Sub. "Instead of spending a few minutes sorting the screws manually, I spent hundreds of hours building a machine that will do it for me". That's modern engineering in a nutshell, and I love it.
GENIUS!
at work we'd spend DAYS sorting hardware.
What you need now is a dedicated head-sorter and THICKNESS sorter. 10-32, 8-32, 1/4-20, 3/8
panheads, machine screws
The 3D renders made this piece so understandable and easy to watch! Thank you for making this! Truly your best work so far!!!
Thank you for the kind words!
Super sleek! Needs a clacker to give the hopper a little smack from underneath every cycle to help keep things moving for those stubborn ones.
Something to consider for future designs, while most people don't have a bare motor, basically everyone has a drill.
Speed is the consideration
@@techristopher8077 you could use a gearbox reduction but that would definitly add to the complexity
@@ultrapim1 You say this like that's not his primary motivator
All things considered I really don't think you have over engineered this. Compared to other solutions I have seen there are no redundant operations. Well done!
This is cool. Now we just need the following; a way to separate colour (silver and black), head type (pan, countersunk and button), tool type(hex, torx, phillips etc) and nuts by colour, size and type(nylon grip or standard).
In any case I will still make this. I will probably motorise it as I like the idea of dumping a handful of bolts in the hopper and coming back later to find them all sorted as if by magic. Really cool work, subbed.
6:51 Small tip for how to remove the bolts from a single container with multiple compartments: Hold something flat over all but the outermost compartment and empty that compartment. Repeat with the second outermost compartment, etc.
All the keyboard cowboys can say how it could be better. I say it's AWESOME and a joy simply to watch the video. I only wish I had your design skills, patience and command of a foreign language. Nicely done, sir. Nicely done indeed.
Thank you 🫡
Love your work here. You get this refined for additional sizes of nuts and bolts, and I will be saying "take my money, I need one"
Probably could add a mechanism to rattle the feed tray to reduce chance it gets stuck there. Maye be for the output make it so barrel that can pick up more than one each pass in case more than one falls in the queue.
I’ve just spent the last 7 days looking for exactly this to sort my screws! Thank you! 🙏
you could add an spining agitator to the feeding ramp to prevent the issue you have with the larger bolts.
Ha! I just said the same thing before looking in the comments. Someone else also suggested a clacker to smack the bottom of the tray to jostle the bolts. I think both ideas are valid, the agitator might be the more elegant and reliable method, though.
Well done. Nicely documented and presented.
Version two Needs an Crankshaft! its much more fun to operate and others can add a motor if they want!
Last video of the day and it is such a hidden gem! Love the video and the ingenuity that went into the print. I have the exact same set of M3 screws and I am sure it won't stay as well sorted as it is right now for long. Now... Please create one for M2, M4, M5 screws! And for some bonus problem solving: Perhaps you can put everything into one print!
Definitely subscribed and I'm saving your print for later so I have it ready should the need arise.
Interested to see if you could incorporate a Vibratory Bowl Feeder (hopper) instead of the seesaw feeding so that bolts don't get stuck.
German over engineered design at its best! Thumbs up and new subscriber. Respect from 🇨🇦
Excellent work, looking forward to lots of further improvements, eg a rotating, handle, an widened hopper etc. So many possibilities!
Holy shit! How do you only have 5k subscribers?
Your video production is amazing. The animations are stellar! Great demonstration of your thought processes and problem solving.
Printing this for sure! Great work. Now we need m4 and m5!
Wow What an honor. Thank you! Will probably add M4 and M5 in the future
and a presorter so I can dump them all in together!
Add it to the same sorter @@EmGi_
I can't remember the last time the bolts I needed to sort were all the same diameter
Whoaa, this is crazy cool. Works much better than I expected it would. Might actually print one
I love the middle finger to the motor.
Instant sub
Excellent work. Very thoughtful. Keep up the good work.
😊
Very nice design! Would maybe be an small improvement if you engrave bolt size on the containers so you wont forget when you take multiple containers out or something else. Otherwise have size on both the containers and the big cointainer where they sit in. But this may be a personnal preference.
This was the first video of yours that I watched. YT FINALLY got something correct for this suggestion!! This video alone was worth a sub, but I went back and watched all your previous videos. You've reignited my excitement about 3D printing that other channels haven't been able to do. I much prefer the narrators voice in this video as compared to the first one or two. If this is your voice, please keep using it for all your videos! Wonderful work! Thank you!
Thank you! i had to use the other voice in my first video because i didnt have a good mic ( horrible quality can be heard in my second video) but i was able to improve audio quality quite a bit
Lovely!!!!!! I need to sort so many screws during my stem camps ! This will be an eyecatcher. You will get a good coffee from me!
Thank you. Appreciate the Support!
Awesome video, I really like the fact you went through the whole process, failures included. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the stls!
Love this project and the animations are so pretty
Fantastic choice of background music.
I saw your post about this on reddit the other day - I understand it much better now after having seen this video! Very impressive!
Actually very well engineered. Not more complicated than it needed to be and functioned quite well.
What a brilliant solution. I am in envy of the mind that can think of all these solutions.
haha, this is brilliant. It's like a real version of a William Heath Robinson illustration!
This man has just done more to better humanity than a nobel prize!
Decent. Seems quite reliable.
Loving it! Maybe after the transition from the bolt being vertical to being picked at oriented in the horizontal: have a little correction chute to correctly catch a receive the bolt before it is allowed to roll down the final ramp.
This funnel and final chute helps to collect and prevent jams whilst making sure the cap can be hanging correctly over the support. Maybe there needs to be a gate to limit bolts from having the wrong speed.
Great idea. i think thats something i will keep in mind when doing an improved version
The production quality of this is insane
This is so cool, you should bring this to open sauce next year!
Damn this is actually the exact thing my robotics group needs. Imma run it by them tomorrow.
Very cool! I’ll definitely be making this, but I may try to put a stepper on it.
LOVE WHAT YOU DID! Wish you a lot of YT sucess, I just finnished my workshop yesterday :)
Weiter so!
awesome job!
I'd love to see a part two with a more general solution to the screw/bolt bin that are not just 1 head size/diameter. Maybe just based on weight?
Like, the eternal problem many people (like me) have is they have a bucket full of screws/bolts of all sizes, and it's very handy to have around, but the small ones go the the bottom and stuff. It would be nice to be able to sort them in ~5 weight/length classes.
Again, awesome video
Thank you! because of the many requests i get i will probably try to make a improved version that supports multiple types of bolts/screws as well as diffrent diameters
@EmGi_ cool! Can't wait
Sehr nice! Das hätte ich gebraucht als ich vor einigen Wochen unsere "Schraubenkiste" in der die letzten Jahre so ziemlich alles gelandet ist, "aufgeräumt" habe... 😀 Habe direkt abonniert ❤
Wonderful devise ! If only all my piles of bolts were the same diameter. Rotation covers are also called journal caps.
Dude the production quality is insane I can't believe you only have 4k subs
thank you
So overcomplicated, so much labour to improve the machine, so very german! I LOVE IT! Even the paulaner spezi couldn't be missed.
BTW: just another idea to overcomplicate things... what about a linear 2 one-way rotational adapter on the 90º lifter? this way you could just rotate a drum in the same direction on both in and out stroke for an overcomplication perfection machine
Blown away! This is amazing! High on my next things to print list!
This is an incredible design! thanks for sharing!
A very elegant solution
Wow the intro is incredible ! Kudos for that, don't loose that trend !
Thank you!
I dont think I'll ever have a use for this myself, but it was cool to see made.
I subscribed just for the quality of the video and animations, great work man!
Thank you!
Dude that is awesome!!! I have lots of small bolts and nuts of different diameters and materials. Searching for part I need is a mess. An idea for the next project - sorting stuff by mass into say 256 (16x16) boxes by using automated pocket scale.
I already have all my nuts & bolts sorted but I feel like I want to build this, then mix them up. Just to watch it sort them. Great job!
Shout out to the company I worked for that regularly threw out mixed bolts because inventory didn't want to count them into kits and just stored all 60+ variants in the production area with no controls
great machine, now all we need is a pre sorter that can sort out different diameters from m3 to m10. then this sorter can just be scaled up op match the diameter
I printed a pair of your V1 magnet inserters. They went together perfectly and work great. I don’t have a use for this item, but went ahead and subscribed to your Patreon channel to provide support. Looking forward to seeing your next act of innovation!
Thank you so much for the Support. Its much appreciated :)
This is fantastic. Well done.
6:56 “so I printed this, which is just as useless, but bigger!” 😂
Great engineering. And hand over one of those Munich Spezies!
Daumen hoch für Paulaner Spezi!
Cool. I started a sorter using to rollers set in a V with the plan to sort different diameter bolts.
Brilliant video, design, instructions and build. Followed. 👏 👍
This is an amazing idea and I wish I could use it. Since I work in a machine shop, we have so many different sizes of bolts and screws laying around in boxes that this would be a game changer for organizing and resorting them. Unfortunately, while it does sort them, it does so by the length of the bolts and not by the length, the diameter (of either the head or the threads), and the TPI's of the bolts. So, for example, if I had 8 different sizes of bolts and screws that I needed to sort, that means I would need 16 of these sorters to cover the two different TPI's we have for each type of bolt or screw. I suppose I could just use a thread gage or a bolt checker to separate each size and TPI's before putting them into this sorter but at that point, I might as well just use a ruler at the same time to figure out the lengths. On a side note, it would be interesting to see if you can modify this design to have an attachment for a servo or some other type of motor and you just use gear ratios to control the speed of everything so nobody has to worry about programming the motor. They would just need to purchase the motor off Amazon, attach it, turn it on, and go.
im planning to further improve this to hopefully support multiple types of bolts with diffrent diameters and a motorized version.
@@EmGi_ I await in eager anticipation.
And this is how automation engineers are born :)
Beautiful work!
I was literally looking for something like this 2 days ago. Then this pops up yesterday. What a coincidence.....
Absolutely beautiful, I love this ❤
For having posted only 6 videos, they are extremely well made
Thank you! its funny to compare this video to my first 2 videos in terms of quality
WOW! I bet you could build a coin sorter just like that!
As modeller i have currently "a ton" of these bolts waiting to be sorted ... but ... i am gonna print and try this machine insted of a boring hour in my workshop ;-)
😃
You could probably add a circular agitator to the hopper that spins with the push of the lever back and forth to keep from manually having to agitate the bolts.
fantastic project.
Really,. very elegant design
What a gem of a video. Thank you sir!
This is amazing! I also tried to automate it in some way and was about at the point where you were at 4:00. Your idea with the rotating drum is genius! I still have not given up on an add-on for my sorter to automatically sort them. I guess I need to steal some design choices from you! 😂 Great video and thank you for sharing! 🎉
Glad you like it! your model on printables gave me the initial idea for This project
Very cool.
One thing it desperately needs now is a way to automate it..! Lego motors anyone?
Super gelöst. Ich persönlich würde den Schiebe-Mechanismus als rotierenden Mechanismus machen (Handkurbel) und im Mechanismus ein bisschen LKW-Fett (ganz wenig) anschlieren, um alles flutschi zu halten.
Amazing creation
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome... just brilliant - Next add-on - sorting diameter as well - perhaps in stacks...
Like the place where screw are caught by head having diffrent diameters so smaller screws fall deeper where another push rod awaits them.
@@venyel Sadly i dont think you can do that - and after some thoughts, this design might have a small issue - canonly handle round heads, would be nice to see if it handle hex-heads as well...
Brilliant video in EVERY respect 👏👏👏 Chapeau bas!
That intro is so cool :o
This was absolutely great, thanks for making this 🍻
Wow this video is so nice, I can’t believe you only have 2.1k subs😮
Six hours after your comment, he has 2.6K subs. 😃
A new subscriber is born🎉
not even finished watching your video, but my printer is already preheating :D
wow you are a genius
You can greatly simplify the machine if you don't care about the final orientation of the bolts. Instead of doing two 90-degree rotations along two axes, you can do a single z-axis rotation on the bolts keeping the initial horizontal orientation. This would remove some potential failure points and you could operate the device faster. To scale this to an industrial level, make a larger initial funnel and replace the small recipient trays with tubular chutes that go into larger end-recipients. This whole assembly would be best done with laser-cut sheet metal.
not sure if i understand it correctly but if i keep the horizontal orientation they will be aligned in 2 diffrent ways. the head is either looking to the left side or to the right side. and for the sorter to work its required that they are all aligned the same
Have you considered trying to make the sorting mechanism into a spinning mechanism? Or some other way to make the motion continuous instead of oscillating? It might be easy to add a crank and gears to this, and at that point you can just hook up a cheap slow motor
Love it! You must sell that with a motor!
Alright, you just forgot to add a motor and controller to make it automatic. Joking 😂.
This is an awesome design, whenever I get more bolts to fix my 3D printer, I will try make a motorised version. Can't beat my laziness. And maybe also something on the tray to always be stirring the screws. After finding the optimal speed, all the caveats you noticed will disappear ❤