Garbage Monitoring

[mokie]

Our school gave us a requirement that we should have a topic by the end of Jan. so we can work on it in summer... My "topic" is about garbage monitoring through the use of sensors transmitters and receivers... I was thinking of making a garbage can that is controlled to a specific weight by a sensor of some sort which will make it trigger the transmitter to transmit a message to the receiver...

my major problem is the connection of the sensor to the transmitter and getting to transmit to the receiver.. another is the availability and cost of materials....and if this project is really possible??!!

I live in the Philippines and prices are very diff. from US not to mention availability....

I cant think of any other topic

HELP

is this even a project?

[deleted-71417]

Hi;

Let me react to your closing comment first, not being able to think of other project ideas. Science Buddies has quite an extensive list of project writeup that can help in the project selection process. I strongly suggess you spend a little time perusing it:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... NDMzMTg4OA

You might want to look into these projects:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... tion.shtml

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p010.shtml

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p035.shtml

An article in the Wall Street Journal within the last week claimed that controlling methane emissions would be cheaper and more effective more quickly than trying to control carbon dioxide emissions to control global warming. This project is related to that idea:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p027.shtml

For ideas on how to plan and execute a science fair project guide, I suggest reading the Science Fair project Guide:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... l?From=Tab

This will point out the first step in a project is deciding what question you want to answer with your project. Do you have one yet? You might find this page to be interesting:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... 2008.shtml

If you really want to explore remote sensing, you may want to look into Lego Mindstorms kits. These are designed to help make robots and remote sensing projects, and help learn programming techniques. Here are two related links:

http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/products/default.aspx

http://www.swisseduc.ch/compscience/kar ... index.html

Unfortunately these may be quite expensive for you, and I have no personal experience with their capabilities. So I can’t recommend them except to say that they seem to have a good word of mouth reputation.

I hope this gets you started! Remember to have fun with whatever project you choose!

Best regards,

Barrett L. Tomlinson