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Bottle counter

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Hi, Im trying to find a suitable sensor to count bottles as they pass on a conveyor.  I want to connect it to an RPi, with PiFace.  Any help would be appreciated.

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  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    Personally I have never used a RPi as I feel for almost anything i do it's over kill. If it is a simple project why not use Arduino (not that I have used that much either). Other options are TI Launchpads, Freescale Frdm Boards or even ST Nucleo Boards that comes with a free Keil License for the ARM M0. The ST option would allow you to get the X-NUCLEO-6180XA1 that had the flightsense on the board already. I belive the later two boards can be programed in mbed and the first board can be done in Energia, which is like arduino but for TI boards, all teh boards can be programed in C. I hope that helps a bit.

     

    Kas

  • 0 in reply to kas.lewis

    Thanks for the info Kas. The main reason I'm trying this with an RPi is purely because I have one laying around and I'm reasonably familiar with it. I knew there were other options out there but I know pretty much zero about them lol