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31 Smart automatic recycling trash basket
Area Award: Sensors
 Beomjun Shin
Kaiyuan Fan
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Smart automatic recycling trash basket. Our project is named as Smart trash basket. As you can guess what this project means, smart automatic recycling trash basket will recycle depending on the trash material. Metal thing will be recycled in the right/left side in the trash basket. Also, paper thing will be recycled in the left/right side in the trash basket. To discriminate trashes, we will use sensor to detect whether it is metal or paper. After it is known what type is, motor will open the right or left inner lid to separate it. On top of that, when the trash basket is almost full it will give a caution like alarm system or flashing the light periodically, not too many times. This caution will make different flashing light color (metal thing-blue light, paper type-green light, both-red light). From this project, no one need to have several recycling trash basket.

RFI Detector

Jamie Brunskill, Tyler Shaw, Kyle Stevens

RFI Detector

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Problem Statement:

Radio frequency interference from cell phones disrupts measurements at the radio observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Many visitors do not comply when asked to turn their phones off or put them in airplane mode.

Description:

We are planning to design a handheld device that will be able to detect radio frequency interference from cell phones from approximately one meter away. This will allow someone to determine if a phone has been turned off or is in airplane mode.

The device will feature an RF front end consisting of antennas, filters, and matching networks. Multiple receiver chains may be used for different bands if necessary. They will feed into a detection circuit that will determine if the power within a given band is above a certain threshold. This information will be sent to a microcontroller that will provide visual/audible user feedback.

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