Hi! I need some knowledge and feedbacks about our IT Capstone Project. We decided to make a reverse vending machine that can detect plastic bottles as a token for a wifi voucher and also a charging station with it. But I don’t think I have enough knowledge about it but my member told us that we are going to use arduino for it. The project is a bit vague for me since we have to incorporate an app for the machine since we are an IT students, but I don’t know what data can be gathered from there and what will be the purpose of the app we’re going to make. Can you give me some ideas for the application and I wanted to lessen the programming for it since we already making an IoT project. And I’ve seen some ideas that there was a built in app for the data gathering of the arduino to lessen the coding but I don’t know if its applicable and allowed in my university.
Hi,
here are the options known to me. After all, I’d build all around Obelix - 4kW version (with proper blades), wrapped up, touchscreen.
Shredders
- Obelix (the 2 & 4 kw version come with an electronic plunger)
- Asterix - JW Machines, also with a plunger
- Asterix - PP - light weight variant
Firmware
- Initial Prototype - thats with auto-reverse and handling a plunger (Nema-23 - lead screw based)
- Basic Version - handles plunging and auto-reverse
Todos
- touchscreen (partially supported via custom serial interface)
- adopt latest osr-firmware stack
- bar code scanner
- bottle detection (conveyor) ala Tomra
Footage
Plunger on “Zoe”
Zoe prototype
