Need Help on a Design of a Pill Counter

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Hi hope All Are well i need help on a pill counter
it going to Have 4 feeding trays but it must dispensing in one place first 10 off and 10 off the other and 20 off and 5 off and after it must turn to a new cup And start over again

i have 4 IR Sensers to count
SERIAL CONTROLLED I2C 20X4 -- 4 display's that must set up to qty of pills that must be dispensing
4 motors to rotate the table's to feed the pills
and 1 motor to rotate the cups/ bag For Dispensing
Arduino Membrane Keypad for qty that has to dispensing
can you guys help me out

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This confuses me.

This is what I read: You will have 4 "hoppers" of different pills and a "receiving cup." From the first hopper you will dispense 10 pills into the cup, from the second hopper you will dispense 10 pills into the cup, from the third hopper you will dispense 20 pills into the cup, from the fourth hopper you will dispense 5 pills for a total of 45 pills in the receiving cup. Is this wrong?

Maybe a hand-drawn picture would help.

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No You Are 100% Correct on It

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First help looks like being the mechanical design.

Unknown things so far. Please post a link to the datasheet.

Again, links to their datasheets.

Likely motor drivers are needed and power supply as well.

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The important part you have not mentioned is your mechanism to dispense just a single pill and verify it was actually dispensed and not two pills. How does your design work and have you tested it?

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Its a 4 hopper system don't know if 1 arduino bord can do it but i a trying to build a pill dispensary that must make up a contaner of 4 different pill the ir switch is to count the amount of pill passing through as soon as the qty is 10 it must stop same with the author hoppers as soon as it happens the table must turn to a new tray and start over

So every hopper will have a display and a keypad to set the count of pill that it must dispens out of the hopper

Every hopper will contain
1 x display ( indicate what the count is )
1 x keypad ( set of counter )
1 x stepper motor ( to feed the pill in to the sensor)
1 x ir sensor ( see every pill that passing and count )

The hopper will supply a feeding system to fill the bag after bag is full on the qty that the hopper are done with it must rotate the feed system

It wil have power to the system with is a must

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Irrelevant,if you cannot ensure a single pill will be dispensed when requested.

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hi

Paul it will only dispense a single pill go and see the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd10qKJszaY&t=38s&pp=ygUUcGlsbCBjb3VudGVyIG1hY2hpbmU%3D

it will look like this guy's one he does not give a lot off info on the product

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I sure hope you will never try to count pills for human consumption with such an unsanitary device.

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Hi

it's only an example how it must work it going to be flex glass and stainless steel that will not contaminate any of the medication

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That is better. What is your plan to remove the excess pills without contamination? The video didn't bother with removal.

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can You Help Me with the Code on The Arduino Borde I Do not Know The Programing Side at all

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Like every other thing you have learned, start with the fundamentals and test your code at every step, NOT at the end like so many want to do!

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Inventory mode.

When you watch these Arduino DIY videos, look in the "more" section for other links... you will see (in the video you linked) a link to the display and counter.

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