Building an Automatic Pill Dispenser 

Hi! I having the same project like this, It would help me a ton if you can share your project how it made?

If you want to take a look to my final degree thesis, you should wait until the working end due to the university rules. Welcome from Barcelona!

That's awesome. Glad my design helped you!! I spent a great deal of time testing and figuring out how to administrate the pills one by one accurately and consistently. Let me know if you have any questions on the design. I would love to see how your final project turns out!

@@michaelsangiorgio9959 Do you have any issues with missed dispenses? I've considered something similar but rather than assuming one pill per rotation, I was planning on using some sort of a light detection to verify that an object fell. Are your designs are reliable enough that it's unnecessary to verify a dispense?

@@FredDamstraThe design of the device ensures that no more than one pill can be dispensed. Including the sensor would be the next step in this project. The sensor would verify that a pill was dispensed and could be used to determine if there is a jam in the system or if the pills need to be refilled.

@@aroelclavell1231 hi I have also taken interest on this project i know that you comment it for a long time now but i was task to make similar to that, can I see your project?

you should make a follow up video and make this one lol credits given of course

Pleas3 provide the stl files

Hey! The hardest part of designing the disks was getting the slots the correct size and shape to allow only one pill to be dispensed. Getting the slots the correct size took a lot of trial and error. I found that having the pill slide into the slot on an angle and having the top of the pill sit just below the top of the disk while it was in the slot worked best. At first, I thought I could just design the slot to pick up each pill horizontally. But with this design, two pills would sometimes be dispensed at the same time or two pills would get caught upright in the slot and would jam the device once the pills hit the "sweeper arm". Having the pills sit inside the slot on an angle and positioned just below the top of the disk ensured only one pill was collected and if another pill did manage to get caught, the sweeper arm would just brush it off. Pause the video at time 2:22 to get a clear picture of it. The rest of the design of the disk includes a threaded hole at the bottom of it (to secure the motor gear) and the two slots at the top of the disk hold the agitator piece. I'm not sure if this helps.

@@michaelsangiorgio9959 Dear Michael! I am working on a university project about dispensing medicals and I found your video very useful for this project. My problem was the same, dispensing just one medicine, not 2 or 3. My question is that dont you have any cad or stl, stp file about the model? I couldnt really understand the working mechanism, this is why i am asking. Thank you for your helping and your answer as well! P. s: Congratulations for the machine and for the solution! Amazing idea.

Autodesk Inventor was used to design the parts.

Sorry about the typo! ...Any help would be...

Paused the video and got the info on the stepper motor. Thanks!

I'm sure his work doesn't prevent you from making your own version. Please share the STLs, it would help many