Raghav Kedia

HTMAA - Final Project

Automatic Page Turner
Proposal
This summer (summer 2021), I read a lot (for my standards), and my goal is to continue this momentum! To help me read more, I thought it would be neat to try and build an automatic page turner!

Here are my (very bad) drawings. So far all of the automatic page turners I have seen online require the book to be laid flat on a board or platform. I'm sure there is probably a very good technical reason for this, but my idea is to make a device that can attach to the book itself. There will be some sort of clamping/brace mechanism that attaches to the back flap of the book, and then from that there will be an attached motorized rubber wheel that should in theory grip and pull the page.

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Here is my (even worse) first attempt at trying to model this in Fusion 360. I figured I should start with defining some basic parameters. Then, to make it simple, I only need to model the back flap of the book. It is very raw, but the hopefully the placement of the wheel relative to the book would make it some what clear how I imagine with would move.

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Random Thoughts

Printers somehow are able to always push exactly one page. Maybe I could investigate how printers solve the "one page at a time" problem...

Quora: How do printers pick up exactly one sheet of paper from a stack, when most humans could not reliably do that in one try?

Automatic Page Turner Machine for High-speed Book Digitization



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