Trash-Bot

I've seen such things. Forty years ago neighbors had something similar, though there was nothing automatic in it. I think there is the problem of someone falling in and breaking a leg; lawyers.

Hi Jim, Actually, about 25 years ago, my mom and dad had underground trash cans. You walked out to the street, stepped on a raised part of the lid, and dropped your trash into the can. The garbage guys had to open a larger lid, and lift the whole can (a pretty typical galvanized one) out of the hole, and then empty it into the truck. Biggest problem was you usually filled the can, and then had to stack bags up on top. Since this was Palm Desert, you had to worry about wildlife spreading the trash all over the place from the bags, but I think that was why they had the in-ground cans in the first place.

Charlie

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SiC + 2H2O > SiO2(passivates) + CH4 (with some insane activation energy around white heat, I'm sure)

Wrong carbide ;-)

Tim ("Damnit Jim I'm a doctor not an escalator")

-- Deep Fryer: a very philosophical monk. Website:

If you build it big enough, you can lob the trash bags into the garbage truck from a couple blocks away.

By car, or on foot?

My bad. Safest cannon on the block, though. How about nitrogen tri-iodide?

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

As in "Bangers & mash", British (not so haute) cusine:

Apparently (I don't see anything definitive on it) bangers are so-called because they were made of particularly poor quality ingredients during WWII and tended to pop when cooked. J. Woodgate would know for sure, but I hesitate to add sci.lang.translation to the list.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Ah yes......my favorite instrument of warfare.....the trebuchet. I want to build one for my back yard that will launch a water balloon to the stop sign located six houses down from mine (about 700'). That way I can get even with the local hoodlums that like to fly past my house when they approximate their stop at the corner. It will need to be quiet, triggerable by remote control (no problem on that) and auto reloading. That way I can sit in the front yard and enjoy the fun. :-D I really like the kind that use simple leverage and weight, no springs.

CaC2 + H2O => C2H2 + CaO

C2H2 + 4O2 => 2CO2 + 2H2O + boom! ;-)

Cheers! Rich

And if you could teach your dog to use the foot pedal, you wouldn't need to clean up after him. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Bwahahahaha! Having been to Punkin' Chunkin' I can well imagine how well a siege engine would go over in most neighborhoods.

Up next... the piano!

Hmmm, get the truck to broadcast it's GPS coordinates and you'd really have something!

Hey. Maybe in order to reduce car thefts, cars could make a lot of noise if they're being tampered with. Oh, wait - never mind.

Mitch

"Launching a Missile at a Motor Vehicle." Class 6 misdemeanor. I know this all too well.

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If you can lob it that far, you can stop paying the garbage service altogether. And you don't even have to hit the truck.

try multiple four hundred pound people, many of whom are forced to use breathing machines ironicly.

"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in news:V_2Af.81336$Dk.46956 @tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com:

I want to do something similiar. But I wanted the bot to leave it at the curb. And getting the can off itself and onto the curb seemed too hard. I planned on making the robot big enough so the can rides in the center and the bot could lift and lower it into place. It could also bring multiple cans to the curb, one at a time. (And I wouldn't have to worry about someone walking away with it either.)

Also, it has to be waterproof. There's nothing worse than dragging your garbage cans to the curb in the pouring rain.

I can only imagine how badly beseiged castle defenders must have felt when they saw a couple of those suckers appear off in the distance heading their way.

-- Bobby G.

Actually, the truck could have several pre-determined stop areas. Just imagine. It pulls up to a stop area, opens up the tarp covering the payload area, and at the stroke of 6:00 AM (or whatever) garbage bags come flying in from all quarters. At 6:01 AM, the driver puts the tarp back in place over the payload and drives on to the next stop area.

--Mac