Post by rob on Jul 29, 2006 16:43:20 GMT 10
Hi there,
I'm in the process of early sketch out design ideas for a project. I'll give you some history.
My wife and I own a hair salon. I've noticed that one of the time consuming parts of the daily chores involve 'tearing foils' for colour work.
What this involves, is getting an apprentice or whoever is available to stand at a bench for 20 minutes at a time tearing sheets of foil in various lengths from roughly 20cm to about 35cm depending on what the stylist has requested.
Turns out this happens totaling roughly 1 hour a week, going for 6 days a week thats a total of 312 hours a year... and I thought... small machine... cuts foil to length for us, set it and walk away and be productive.
I did find one just a few minutes ago, strangely enough, and I decided for a second to give this project up, then I saw the price AUD$1600. And it's not automatic (but close). www.hairfoil.com.au/ is the location of that machine. I decided to continue with my automated version for our salon.
Hence I'm here.
The foil a hair salon purches is usually in about 11cm width rolls and looks like this in the hair: www.salonfoil.com/images/news/foiled.jpg and comes on rolls like this: www.salonfoil.com/images/rolls.jpg
I've done a mockup of a machine that you can download the video for here: www.surrenderdorothy.com.au/tmp/foil_cutter.mpg (mpg1 400Kb) but I'm a bit concerned about its ability to handle different roll sizes, and also i don't know anything much at all about robotics/mechanatronics etc. (again, hence I'm here
!!
So what I'm looking for is some advice on design, how the thing will work, then of course, how to build it. I hope this is the kind of community where I can meet people who are into this kind of thing as I'm sure it's hard to find a community where people like this exist.
If you like the project and are interested in lending some suggestive tips I'd really appreciate any advice you may have.
Thanks so much for reading.
Regards,
Rob Starr
p.s. I should note, i don't know how that blade design will work, and i want it all hidden in the end in a small desktop unit. I also want different foil lengths dependant on user selection (say, three lengths from a potentiometer (spelling?)? or similar? There's a lot of ideas. I really look forward to chewing the fat with some minds in here
I'm in the process of early sketch out design ideas for a project. I'll give you some history.
My wife and I own a hair salon. I've noticed that one of the time consuming parts of the daily chores involve 'tearing foils' for colour work.
What this involves, is getting an apprentice or whoever is available to stand at a bench for 20 minutes at a time tearing sheets of foil in various lengths from roughly 20cm to about 35cm depending on what the stylist has requested.
Turns out this happens totaling roughly 1 hour a week, going for 6 days a week thats a total of 312 hours a year... and I thought... small machine... cuts foil to length for us, set it and walk away and be productive.
I did find one just a few minutes ago, strangely enough, and I decided for a second to give this project up, then I saw the price AUD$1600. And it's not automatic (but close). www.hairfoil.com.au/ is the location of that machine. I decided to continue with my automated version for our salon.
Hence I'm here.
The foil a hair salon purches is usually in about 11cm width rolls and looks like this in the hair: www.salonfoil.com/images/news/foiled.jpg and comes on rolls like this: www.salonfoil.com/images/rolls.jpg
I've done a mockup of a machine that you can download the video for here: www.surrenderdorothy.com.au/tmp/foil_cutter.mpg (mpg1 400Kb) but I'm a bit concerned about its ability to handle different roll sizes, and also i don't know anything much at all about robotics/mechanatronics etc. (again, hence I'm here
!! So what I'm looking for is some advice on design, how the thing will work, then of course, how to build it. I hope this is the kind of community where I can meet people who are into this kind of thing as I'm sure it's hard to find a community where people like this exist.
If you like the project and are interested in lending some suggestive tips I'd really appreciate any advice you may have.
Thanks so much for reading.
Regards,
Rob Starr
p.s. I should note, i don't know how that blade design will work, and i want it all hidden in the end in a small desktop unit. I also want different foil lengths dependant on user selection (say, three lengths from a potentiometer (spelling?)? or similar? There's a lot of ideas. I really look forward to chewing the fat with some minds in here
