The obvious advantage over a flag on the door is a visual representation of all pickup locations. This way, you wouldn’t waste a drive across town just to check for flagged doors.

Posted at 2:00 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by sky

woah. it takes a good bit of force to crush those things like that.

(woot woot first!)

Posted at 2:01 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by Daniel

probably releases more carbon into the environment than it saves….

Posted at 2:41 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by Chris_C

this would be good on a large scale recycling project, probably not feesible or useful for private citizens.

Posted at 2:52 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by sunjester

good idea? helpful for environment? Profit? no they spending 1000X more energy on it ineffectively crushing. bad idea really bad

Posted at 3:20 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by therian

oh I thought it electromagnetic crusher

Posted at 3:22 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by therian

Pointless, I wonder how many cans they had to collect to pay for that thing.

Posted at 3:33 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by Crazy Tree Hugger

Whatever happened to putting the just-emptied can on the ground and stomping it?

We even play a little game here at the fire station: The one who’s can’s top and bottom are the most off-center pays the next round :)

Posted at 3:38 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by Alex

isn’t it simpler to just put out it separately from ordinary trash??

Posted at 4:34 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by Daniel R

This is dumb. At least make it automated. The title made me think it would be. This really hasn’t much to do with cans, but rather just a scale that uploads automatically to the internet.

As for their goal… pft.

Posted at 5:14 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by Wtf

ok let me get this straight. we have an arduino that counts button-presses hooked up to a computer that updates an xml file (probably – no, didn’t rtfa). show me what’s special… that’s almost as cool as hooking one’s bathroom scale to their twitter account. yeah exactly – moving on…

Posted at 5:34 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by daley

@daley,
Any of our projects could be reduced to utter simplicity. “you mean you’re just passing electrons through resistors, capacitors and diodes? pffft, give me a break”. It’s the result thats notable.

Though, to be fair, I do question the necessity of this.

Posted at 6:49 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by calebkraft

the purpose of the google maps here is that it makes for a better reality show.

Posted at 9:24 pm on Jul 10th, 2009 by RT (Panzer Time!)

great until some 13yo kid thinks its funny to mash the button 50X

surely an actual weight sensor would be more applicable, it could then be multi purposed to other similar projects but post a different signal.

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Posted at 12:41 pm on Jul 13th, 2009 by mikky shaw