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37 Comments
"Garbage/bin men just standing at front of house"
"This is a station announcement, the 9:20 Trash Train to Front Garden is delayed due to track maintenance"
On board solar charging would be viable for monthly ish usage. That way your elderly customers don't have to maintain this product so often.
Nicely done. My only concern is with the trash people handling the containers; do they return the containers to the cart? Do they realize the carts should be treated carefully?
So what happens when there’s a power cut?
Amazing stuff. The simple power of “why not? ‘ is underestimated.
Something to rotate the bins so the handle is on the correct side for the collectors
Briljant!
all i thought about is trip hazard when i comes to the rail..still ccool though
Great job! I would get lost in this project, so many cool components, all super-engineered (German?). I’m jealous ❤.
This is so fucking stupid and I love it
Genius!
Hi, nice idea but the question is why relying on a wheel when you could use something like a cogwheel in a rack to get on the grip.
This looks like a great idea.
I think I'll have to build one myselfe.
Oh, now i see at 7 minutes you made the change.
LOL, perfect example of how the environmental movement has distorted first world reality.
Says thyme is better than grass "for the environment" whilst spending vast amounts of energy on constructing a steel rail to move a trash can a few feet using a lot of electricity because of the ridiculously heavy weight needed to give grip.
I suppose Teutonic adherence to orders means the trash collector operatives will take the bins off the train. Bet they are really pleased at having to lift a heavy bin off an raised platform rather than just pull it along on its wheels !
Wonder if they always put then back on or, as in most countries, they are left everywhere?
fun project, but nothing more than a rich man's plaything. if this ever becomes a commercial project aimed at old people then I hope he gives it for free as the hypocrisy underpinning his claims is breath taking
You know dude u wouldent need all that to make it stop when u could just use a computer to just measure how many rotations of the gear and when it reaches that many to stop…….just one stoners opinion tho.
Imagine being this rich…
I could defiantly see this as a product that people could use
Great project! Would be awesome to have switches in the track to call specific recycling bins (like the yellow ones).
Oh Europeans and their trains lol
The contact points on your locomotive are rusting. You might have to take a look at that.
should have recessed the charging connectors, those will rust out in no time
your trash only gets picked up once a month… 12 times a year? Germans really do live in filth
One major flaw I see is how do you train the collectors to put the bins back on the train?
Why so many cans????!?!!
They call it a trash can, and not trash can not for a reason.
Also you've probably spent more time on this project than most people spend on taking out the trash manually in like 10 lifetimes.
hmm to me it makes more sense to charge a monthly fee for the garbagepeople to grab your cans for you. Don't think this is necessary, but very cool.
make it automated so a motion sensor or lets say every Wednesday it goes out
The tracks seem a trip Hazzard. Why not put it on rubber wheels and follow a burried guide wire like how robot lawn mowers navigate,might require a locamotive at both ends.
Good job
Your sheer genius ness scares me.
This is like conveyor belt sushi for the bears
Well that escalated quickly!
Ah German engineering is the best–but way to many Deutschmarks ……………
Awesome idea
Observations: maybe in Germany that dusting of snow is 'alot' but in many places the track would be many inches/feet/fractions of a meter below the snow level :P.
Comments: since you have a rack and thus a well-defined relation between distance and output shaft rotations, a rotary encoder could accomplish the job of the limit switches (albeit with less definite reliability).
German engineering! Question. How does it function in snow and or ice?
Personally, I would have tested using a cable to pull it back and forth. At least then the motor could be left at one end. Could use that single track you're using and a couple of sensors at each end to detect when to slow down and stop the train or could have some sort of clamp on the cable to put extra pressure on the motor which it detects so it knows to stop. Saying that all the designs need some sort of sensor to stop it in it's tracks, just in case.