Problem 3.3.1 Sorting Project Day 1

Work on the marble sorting project started today, and Jon Henry and I came up with some ideas for what could work. The following is rough draft sketch #1:

I was looking at the 3 marbles on top for the idea, and noticed that the glass marbles are bigger than the others. The marbles move down a ramp, the metal one is sucked in by a magnet, the glass one is trapped at one point because it is too big and pushed by a piston, and the wooden one is small enough to make it to the end. This efficiently separates the 3 marbles.

Rough Draft Sketch #2:

This was Jon Henry's idea for the project, he will explain it on his blog.