Smart Trash

One to sort them all. An automated bin that sorts recyclables into containers.

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Whole machine in it's glory
Place to put recyclables - simple!
Examples of things the bin sorts

Inspiration

We wanted to create a hardware based hack that focused on machine learning.

What it does

It's an automated bin that sorts recyclables into their respective containers.

How I built it

We created the machine using cardboard boxes that were leftover after lunch. We used arduino to control motors and laptop for machine learning part.

Challenges I ran into

Creating the base was pretty challenging, but the hardest task was getting PyTorch to behave correctly.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We created an interactive machine and managed to do it on time!

What's next for Smart Trash

It would be great to create public bins that work like this and make it feel like a more polished product.

Built With

Submitted to

Hackking's 6.0
- Winner Second Prize - Checkmate Challenge

Created by

I worked on the hardware side of the project, I wrote the code for the arduino that automated our bin. I also created a script which supplied the neural network with real time vision.

JedrzejMikolajczyk
I have wrote the computer vision part,adjusted resNeXt and trained it and wrote the code that used real time vision to detirmine where the object should be put

Marek Grzesiuk
Jan Cenzartowicz

Updates

Jan Cenzartowicz started this project — Dec 01, 2019 06:29 AM EST

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