Inspiration
Every time you throw trash in the recycling, you ruin the entire can of recyclables or someone out there sorts it out. We want to reward people for disposing trash correctly.
What it does
The trashGO trash can identifies the type of waste: recycling or garbage
How I built it
Challenges I ran into
We had trouble distinguishing who placed the trash. We tried several methods: bluetooth connection, which was difficult to set up; wifi-signal strength, which was not accurate, and a physical tag for each user, which is not seamless.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
What I learned
How to use opencv-python to process images, Azure to extract information and
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