Intel Edison Fruits Plucker for Garden Trees
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Intel Edison Fruits Plucker for Garden Trees
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The concept figure to pluck the fruits from trees without damage to branches.
Intel Edison Board
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Intel edison board with the Micro USB cable, the step by step assemble of board can be available at (https://software.intel.com/en-us/get-started-ediso...).
Grove Starter Kit
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The grove sensor kit is used to interface the sensor to the Intel edison board.
Servo and Chopping Bladeset
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The servo motor and the blade set is used to chop the fruits, flowers, twigs, etc from plants/trees.
Analog Potentiometer
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The potentiometer is used to control the servomotor motion to a particular angle to chop the flowers from plants.
Assembled Kit
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Sensors are connected to the Intel edison board through grove kit.
Software Downloading
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The required software for the Intel edison board can downloaded and installed from the following link https://software.intel.com/en-us/get-started-edis...
Step by step run up for installation is given in the below link
Software Programing
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The software programming for the fruit plucker can be done in Arduino IDE, the codes and details of senors can be find in the link
Uploading the Software
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The software program is uploaded to the Intel edison board to function the fruit plucker device. The software installation and uploading is available in the youtube video.
Functioning of Fruit Plucker
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After uploading the required software the functioning of the device can be checked by plucking the flowers from the branch.
Job Complete
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The job is completed with cutting flower this can be implemented to cut flowers, fruits, twigs, small branches etc with this Intel IoT fruit plucker.