Hi, I will introduce myself first, my name is Benjamin Bonnal and I am studying Micro-engineering at the EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland.
I am so glad to be able to develop great things with the material support of element14, so Thank you so much Christian DeFeo to organize all this, I really appreciate it.
As you have probably noticed by now, my English is not perfect, but I will try during my Blog Posts to make sure it is correct enough for everyone to understand.
As I like to do when I am searching for ideas I have drawn a few pictures to illustrate what I will do in the next few weeks (months).
After three years studying math physics mathematics mechanics electronics ... (you see the point) I tend to get pile and pile of exercise sheets that I don't want to throw away since they could be handy to have to study
the final exams.
But also those very same sheets are a real pain to get sorted and to keep track of them.
So I thought I could try to build a machine that could sort them out automagically for me... and I would only need to put a little blob of color one one corner to get the job done.
By the way, sorry for my hand-writing. I know that English and American people are not use to this style of writing but it is the only one I know.
The device should be working just like a printer, but one that doesn't print... It should grab, analyse and class each paper sheet you throw at it 
.
On this drawing, I tried to represent the basic mechanics of the device. It is a really basic design but I will improve it by the time I have to build it.
Finally I took a minute to think about the software side of the project.
That is it for now, I will have to wait for the raspberry to be able to move forward with the software. Maybe I will take another look at the mechanics before.
Until then I hope you like the drawings.I should definitely invest into a Wacom tablet to get those drawings right.
Thanks for reading.
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