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Article #623624Re: Flying crisps (Was Re: The birth of BASIC)
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:24
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:24
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On 6/6/2018 10:30 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: > JimP <solo...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 09:54:14 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot >> <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >> >>> On 6 Jun 2018 08:13:39 GMT >>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> This is quite long. Apologies. >>> >>> Don't apologise, that was an interesting read. >> >> I think 'How Its Made' shows this process. Its a program on Discovery >> Science channel about how many things are made and then shipped to >> market. Bags of chips/crisps are on one show. A computer watches them >> fly by a camera, and puffs of air are used to toss bad ones off the >> line. The chips/crisps are litteraly flying across a small gap between >> machines in the packing line when this happens. The computer >> controlled gates are also shown dropping the product into bags, and >> then the bags are sealed. > > Note that those bag fillers have six to eight buckets that > feed the bag - it appears the system chooses the two or three buckets > that get closest to the target weight when combined and releases > them into the bag. > ISTM the "chips" were plantain chips, which are hard to make correctly... -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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