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Introduction

I wanted a way to keep track of how much waste I was generating just to be more environmentally conscious. So I created this project as an automated way to help keep track of waste accumulation through fullness measurements while also taking pictures of the objects thrown away.

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ZotBins Community Edition

This is the first step of a multi-part project of creating a smart waste ecosystem called ZotBins, which is already deployed at UCI. Currently, I am helping to further expand the concept of ZotBins where any city, business, university, classroom, or home could implement a smart waste system. This open-source version ZotBins is called ZotBins Community Edition (ZBCE). To learn more about this initiative please visit the ZotBins Community Edition Blog

Quick Start

Please follow the appropriate build guide for the waste watcher version of your choosing.

  • Waste Watcher Guide
    • Measures bin fullness and collects waste images
    • Saves data and images to HTTP server
    • Syncs with NTP Client to generate UTC datetime stamps

Contributing

Here are some following ways you can contribute:

  • For this specific repository feel free to submit any issues regarding bugs. This will really help other users who may be interested in building this project and also help me create a debugging guide for the community.
  • Join our Discord server and contribute to our growing community
  • Submit bugs by opening an issue on our Github. Please make sure that bugs are reported in detail and is reproducible.
  • Write some documentation for a repository and we can add it to our GitHub Wiki Page
  • Look for open issues on our repositories
  • Suggest new features in our Discord Server
  • Contribute to our crowd-sourcing projects. Occasionally, we will have certain projects that require crowd-sourced data, and would love people to help.
  • Submit user feedback through feedback forms or polls in our Discord community
  • Lookout for more requests for help on our Discord server

Overall, if you contribute to our project, we will feature your username on respective GitHub repositories. We really appreciate the help. For more ideas about how you can contribute to open source projects in general, feel free to take a look GitHub's Open Source Guides.