This includes my plan for the project, along with the schedule and plans for testing.

This is a picture of me soldering for the first time. I was soldering a simple circuit that turns a motor, and is controlled by a switch. I started by getting a motor, a battery holder, and a switch. After that, I put solder on the switch and the motor, then soldered the wires to the motor and switch. Finally, I put heat shrink on the wires to keep them steady. Unfortunately, when I was using the heat gun on the heat shrinks on the switch, I melted the switch a little bit which messed it up.

This is a video of my completed hopper working. The hopper lets the coins through the gate one at a time, so that they can go in their respective holes

This was my first prototype for the sorting system. When I started testing it, I realized that the cardboard was slowing the coins down and adding too much resistance. I also realized that the coin holes were too close together. I also realized that the dime and penny holes are very similar in diameter, so I adjusted the size of the holes a little bit to accommodate for that issue

This was my final design for the sorting system. I improved my previous prototype, by changing the material to acrylic and making the cutout a little bit bigger. When I tested this, it worked perfectly. I used AutoCadd to create this, and a laser cutter to cut it out.

This is my final project. Unfortunately, I could not get it to work, even though every component by it self was working. The problem was that the hopper was leading directly above the dime hole, so pennies got stuck in it. I tried to fix it, but I could not move it far enough forward so the pennies wouldn't get stuck.