This is a great device. Funny story, though.

I received my M&M Color Sorter last week. My associate (I’ll call him Wimfred) and I immediately set to the task of sorting my favorite food into it’s element food groups. The burning question to me of course was —- can it keep up with my chewing. As an aside here, Wimfred is a faster chewer than me, but when he really gets going, multi-colored shards tend to leak out of his mouth around the sides. I find it necessary to disqualify him in races for that very reason. And I make him get the vacuum out too.

So, Wimfred and I set to work assembling the unit. Pretty slick. It required no lubrication whatsoever. Once up and running, I was quickly disappointed, however. At full speed, the servo got sloppy and failed more t...