Hello World 🌍 How are you?Finding nails inside recycled wood, adding a marker for easy removal.
Increase recyclability on used wood by identifying hidden metal objects. Prototyped on a computer built using a FPGA and wireframe mockup UI.
A of my friends from sustainable design were working at Lendager architects and had this problem for a project we could work on during our 3-week project in COURSE NAME at DTU Compute.
The problem where carpenters working with used and recycled wood plants. Sometime metal pieces or screw where left in the wood not visible to the eye and their tools would get torn or broken. So we had to come up with a solution to this problem. We created a solution that would sense metal object and mark the wood with a marker. Increase recyclability on used wood by identifying hidden metal objects. Prototyped on a computer built using a FPGA, sensors, stepper motor powered conveyor belt and wireframe mockup UI. A final competition were a part of the course every year. Meaning friends, families and interested people were invited to come and vote which of the projects they found the most interesting. A popularity contest.
Lendager is an arkitectural company who wants to be more sustainable. One of their methods is by reusing wood. Un- fortunately this method is not always the best because inside this wood, there's often metal from previous usage, like nails and screws. These pieces of metal damages the tools that is used to prepare the wood for new usage, some time even de- stroys it. Therefore we've come up with a solution that will locate the metal and mark it, so it can either be discarded, removed or an area or piece of wood can be cut away. So the wood can processed and manufactured easilier. In this project a Xlinix Zybo is used as main controlling unit while a lot of periphials like sensors and actuators are used to handle the pieces of wood. This includes, infrared sensors, metaldetectors, motors and a solenoid. Everything is based hardware, programmed hardware with premade and custom IP cores and software coded in C.
Increase recyclability on used wood by identifying hidden metal objects. Proto- typed on a computer built using a FPGA, sensors, stepper motor powered conveyor belt and wireframe mockup UI.
to spare tools when processing the wood