This is a systems integration project. All the parts of the system that he wants have already be developed and exist in the marketplace. It is always better to intergrade that to develop from scratch.
Total automation is the key with not humans to pay. Customers of this system do not like to employ people. Trash in bulk goes in the input side of the system and bags of clean plastic particles come out the output side ready to be reprocessed. The design goal is to make the plastic waste system as cost effective as possible. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:07 PM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > Terry, > > Are you being funny? > With barcodes and scanners cashiers don't need to read to price labels. > > He wants to devise a scanning method that identifies the type plastic > without the need for labels. > The optical properties of each plastic type would act like a natural bar > code. > > Harry > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:43 AM, <fznidar...@aol.com> wrote: >> > Thank you Jones. I want to detect the bottles before they are shredded >> and >> > washed. >> >> Why don't you just read the code off the bottom of the bottle? >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_recycling >> >> >
