Pneumatics Recycle Can-Crusher

[ChrisH]

Originally posted by sanddrag
Also, this is totally off topic but a thought just came to me about this thing I saw today. It was an industrial scissorlift that drives around for like painting and changing high lightbulbs and stuff and the way it worked was pretty cool. It had a single long hydrallic cylinder going diagonal from one side of the base to the opposite side of the platform atop the scissors. I'm sure we could do the same for a robot with the optional 24" cylinders we were allowed to order. I would draw a picture but I think it's easy enogh to imagine.

The scissors lift is an elegant concept, but the design effort is non-trivial. The people who design those things are so good at it they make it look easy, but there are many subtle failure modes to trap the unwary. Can it be done? of course, but whether you can do it within our constraints is another issue entirely. For one thing they tend to be very heavy compared to an equivalent telescoping lift.

Just a heads up

[Adam Y.]

Rob does have a point a crushed can is worth nothing in New York. They are worth more if they aren't crushed. They have machines that if you put them in the machine shreds the cans into pieces and you get money but I'm not sure if Florida does this.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by wysiswyg
Rob does have a point a crushed can is worth nothing in New York. They are worth more if they aren't crushed. They have machines that if you put them in the machine shreds the cans into pieces and you get money but I'm not sure if Florida does this.

Most supermarkets do this in Michigan.
The most annoying sound in the world would have to be the sound of 4 full can crushing machines.

BE(beep)EP(beep) BEE(beep)P BE(beep)EP BEEP BE(beep)EP(beep) BEE(beep)P BE(beep)EP BEEP BE(beep)EP(beep) BEE(beep)P BE(beep)EP BEEP

[Trashed20]

Originally posted by Brandon Martus


Most supermarkets do this in Michigan.
The most annoying sound in the world would have to be the sound of 4 full can crushing machines.

BE(beep)EP(beep) BEE(beep)P BE(beep)EP BEEP BE(beep)EP(beep) BEE(beep)P BE(beep)EP BEEP BE(beep)EP(beep) BEE(beep)P BE(beep)EP BEEP

Whats worse is 3 cans, 2 plastic, and 1 glass going off with 2 more bins of glass sitting in the back cause someone was lazy and didn't do them so you have no more bins for the glass, there are 20 people out in the lobby complaining and you are the only bagger around. That sucks. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........... /me passes out.

[Jack]

here in michigan you get $0.1 for each can/bottle. Our team did a can drive and made $700 in one day! Thats 7000 cans, or many vans/pickup trucks filled with cans. But, i guess if you live in a place where there are worth nothing you can crush them

[sanddrag]

man, 10 cents a can. Here in Californi we only get 2.5 cents per can/bottle. No fair.

[evulish]

Team 84 collects cans. (I think most of them come from our house...heh...we accumulate like 15 large garbage bags of 5c cants each year). We sort them ourselves then haul them up to NY to get your 5c's worth

[f22flyboy]

Team 540 motto:

Anything you can do, our robot can do better

[Joe Matt]

And we don't have a pizza making robot because why?

Forget cans, ppbbth... get a pizza making robot!

[dixonij]

oooooh *lightbulb over head* for the new season its everyteam make a robot that would normally do a simple basic function we would do and make it do it for us. (im so lazy it would be perfect for me) ideas: homework machine, channel changer, door answerer(robotic butler), mail getter...