as promised i've uploaded the category sorting machine. I'm too tired to explain it right now but you can watch the video and download the world
http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/ ... ategories/

This machine sorts your dump chest into shulker boxes (1 kind of item per box) with no need to build additional filters. The shulker box is the filter and the chest. You could literally sort every single stackable item in the game just by adding a couple more double chests to the input and output. And when a box fills it drops into storage and a new box is added. Neat!

I think this machine is very useful, but I do not think I can explain it well. I would really like some help with that.

If you are wondering what I am working on that is more important, Someone suggested using the boxes as categories, not just a single item filter. This is taking some fandangling but I think I've almost got it.