This article was published on February 21, 2017

This Skittles sorting machine solves the ultimate first world problem


This Skittles sorting machine solves the ultimate first world problem

Tropical Skittles are my jam. Well, except the yellow ones; fuck you Banana Berry.

Willem Pennings, a Dutch inventor, feels my pain. After seeing a color-sorting machine years back, Pennings decided to create his own and use it for the ultimate good: to sort shitty Skittles flavors so we don’t have to eat them.

Pro tip: it also works for M&M’s. But Mars has already confirmed that color doesn’t impact taste (it’s literally just food coloring) so maybe you should get over yourself.

Over a five month period, the mechanical engineering student dropped nearly €500 ($537) to create 2017’s version of the steam engine. The machine uses an RGB sensor to recognize colors and sort the candy. Once identified, a wheel rounds them out into separate bowls. Currently, it sorts about two candies per second, or about two to three minutes for a family size bag.

It’s not fast, but some things are worth waiting for.

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