Proposal

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.

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.

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

Midterm Check-in

• Simplifications:
  • Stick with a heavy hard cover book. Heavy so that it stays open when opened up to the middle.
  • For now, lay book down on platform - get the page turning mechanism working first, then worry about mounting to a book
• CAD
  • Components:
    • Base Platform
    • Arm
    • Wheel
  • Materials:
    • Acrylic
• Functionality:
  • Button 1 will control the raising and lowering of the arm.
  • Button 2 will control the rotating of the wheel.
• Input and Output Devices:
  • 2 Buttons
  • 2 servo motors - figure this out during output device week
• Open Questions:
  • Which servo motors to use?
  • How will power be supplied to the motors? Would the USB 5V be enough?
  • How to mount an arm to servo motor?
  • How to mount a wheel to servo motor?