Easy 3D Printed Video Powder Checker

[GW Staar]

I wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to build a Video Powder Check Station. I broke my 12 Volt endoscope in the process and will have to order another on the slow boat from China.

I do have a USB spare that has to be played on a computer..... but I prefer using a cheap 5" color monitor. The monitor is better and clearer, but the USB one will have to do for now.....I can at least demonstrate the new 3D print version, and how simple a thing it is to build.

Update: After I badmouthed the USB endoscope displaying on my laptop, I did a little research and just used Windows 10 "Camera", changed it to the "rear" camera and it automatically went to the endoscope. Result: better resolution and easier to use. So I redid the video.....new one is now shown. Works plenty good. I just have no room for the bigger display! A tablet would be a step up.

So here's what the .stl files look like, a die base and a scope mount:



And here's the video demonstrating how simple it is......requires printing one die base for each tool head. But the endoscope and the push-on mount just moves from die head to die head.


I slowly raised the shaft to check what range the focus ended up being good. At the beginning of the video the case and shell plate is a bit dark.....forgot to turn the press light on. Endoscopes have their own lights.....so maybe the contrast is a good thing to keep your attention?

 

[Mark_Mark]

I wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to build a Video Powder Check Station. I broke my 12 Volt endoscope in the process and will have to order another on the slow boat from China.

I do have a USB spare that has to be played on a computer..... but I prefer using a cheap 5" color monitor. The monitor is better and clearer, but the USB one will have to do for now.....I can at least demonstrate the new 3D print version and how simple a thing it is to build.

So here's what the .stl files look like, a die base and a scope mount:
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And here's the video demonstrating how simple it is......requires printing one die base for each tool head. But the endoscope and the push-on mount just moves from die head to die head.

this is a great idea!!! I was wondering how I can attach a camera to a die

 

[Mark_Mark]

I still thing my bamboo skewers powder check is the coolest thing since dry ramen packs

 

[GW Staar]

3d printers just flat opened up my reloading world and made making tools flat easy. So why did I break my camera? Because of the generous use of epoxy on the old system. Getting it off was fatal. This system requires no metal work, no gluing, no tools except for calipers to measure the camera. I'll try to post the two .stl files somewhere where the most people can freely download them. Hope you aren't totally averse to buying from the Chinese. I think the people are mostly good......the government, not. One of these days they will figure out they out number the government.

 

[Mark_Mark]

3d printers just flat opened up my reloading world and made making tools flat easy. So why did I break my camera? Because of the generous use of epoxy on the old system. Getting it off was fatal. This system requires no metal work, no gluing, no tools except for calipers to measure the camera. I'll try to post the two .stl files somewhere where the most people can freely download them. Hope you aren't totally averse to buying from the Chinese. I think the people are mostly good......the government, not. One of these days they will figure out they out number the government.

my Iphone is made in china! lol

 

[GW Staar]

As is the laptop I'm typing on, and my 3D printer. I had a fender bender last month. My Toyota was repaired with Chinese auto body parts. There ARE no American car body parts anymore. Not Ford, not Chevy, not Chrysler, not anything. Lets stop driving, stop computing, stop calling, stop living. We'd better help them gain some freedom from their masters, or we are all sol.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I need a 3D printer! got so many great ideas

 

[Mark_Mark]

$319 1911 or a 3D printer???? HUMMM

 

[twarr1]

Now you need a vision system to automate the “looking” part. You can have it text you when it sees an empty.

 

[GW Staar]

Now you need a vision system to automate the “looking” part. You can have it text you when it sees an empty.

That would be ideal......too bad it's only in our dreams.

I haven't had one comment about the "mixed" powder! I actually used powder from my open throw-away can. if you really do see that in a real reloading session....you might better start over. I had been given some old reloads, that had to be taken down and all the powder was then dumped in that can.....just haven't tossed it yet.

 

[thump_rrr]

That would be ideal......too bad it's only in our dreams.

I haven't had one comment about the "mixed" powder! I actually used powder from my open throw-away can. if you really do see that in a real reloading session....you might better start over. I had been given some old reloads, that had to be taken down and all the powder was then dumped in that can.....just haven't tossed it yet.

Video recognition is a reality used every day in automation. It just isn’t typically used at home.

Here is a neat project that appears to do just that.
https://towardsdatascience.com/auto...cognition-system-43198beff99d?gi=d96a6223bb4b

 

[twarr1]

Video recognition is a reality used every day in automation. It just isn’t typically used at home.

The majority of the vision systems I’ve designed and built were to verify a human did something correctly.

 

[CQB45ACP]

My gosh am I glad I’m retired and don’t have to know what in the heck you guys are talking about.

As is the laptop I'm typing on, and my 3D printer. I had a fender bender last month. My Toyota was repaired with Chinese auto body parts. There ARE no American car body parts anymore. Not Ford, not Chevy, not Chrysler, not anything. Lets stop driving, stop computing, stop calling, stop living. We'd better help them gain some freedom from their masters, or we are all sol.

Don’t think for a minute they’ll ever “gain freedom from their masters.” They didn’t have it before Mao either. It’s a feudal society with modern window dressing like nukes. Nixon, Kissinger, et al really thought a little ping pong and trade would change the ruling class. We’re all blind. So long as there are no real bombs exploding we’re content. Logic bombs never will open our eyes because they leave no blood and guts.

Same with Russia. Some thought Russia changed in ‘91. Not one bit. It too is a feudal society and essentially unchanged since Peter the Great only now with nukes. What’s going on in Ukraine today is the fourth such pogrom since the October (really November) Revolution and the tactics are older than that. Even the Tsarists ground their enemy’s buildings into dust and bodies into goo.

So, buy your stuff like Uyghur hair extensions or Murom primers from whence ever it comes and be happy, happy, happy.

 

[thump_rrr]

The majority of the vision systems I’ve designed and built were to verify a human did something correctly.

A friend of mine does food packaging on high speed machines and they have AI that looks for anything that doesn’t look like whatever it is they’re packaging and can automatically reject it.

 

[CQB45ACP]

A friend of mine does food packaging on high speed machines and they have AI that looks for anything that doesn’t look like whatever it is they’re packaging and can automatically reject it.

Interesting. I read that’s how counterfeit currency is/was detected. Back in the day secret service analysts, Federal Reserve, and some commercial bank personnel were “programmed” to live, eat, and breath the look and feel of genuine currency so counterfeits were obvious—the smallest variations would be recognizable and would jump out. The theory being it would be impossible to do the opposite, i.e., train someone to recognize what all counterfeits looked like.

 

[GW Staar]

$319 1911 or a 3D printer???? HUMMM

That's easy....a new gun that you can't get primed ammo for, for another year, or a 3d Printer, so you can have fun making tools you need/want for when you can buy a gun again and reload again.....but safer and faster and cheaper.

Plus.....It has done a great job of taking my mind of the chaos and keeping me busy in a fun and useful way......spools of media that cost $19 last year, are $22 to $24 today and you can build a whole collator and sundry tools like the one in this thread, with one spool of PLA.