Arduinball! Love your trashcan and be loved in return! First (and last) version of a project so silly it can hurt you: unleash the happiness of your trashcan for a work well done!

Each time you score - throwing a wadded-up ball of paper, a shoe, a cat or whatever you like - your trashcan will be so proud of you! (more proud than your own mother ever was, anyway)

Beware that this is just a draft, and not a mature project. Also, beware that it will make you look very stupid in any respectable circle.

Minimum requirements are a buzzer, a servo, an LED, a button and an infrared proximity sensor (plus cables and some resistors). Oh, an Arduino UNO will help. :-P

The arduinball.fzz file contains the Fritzing circuit diagram; for the proximity sensor I've used a Sharp GP2Y0A02YK0F; you may use whatever you have, but you'll probably need to fix some values in the code.

Just copy the arduinball directory into your ~/sketchbook directory. Most of it is commented, if you can understand my English.

In the media directory, you'll find some picture that may help you building the project (no, really: you're doing it for real?) and a short video (sorry for the abysmally low quality of the audio). Also, the backboard.png and backboard.svg (Inkscape format) files can be used to create the backboard.

• copy the arduinball directory into your ~/sketchbook directory
• it needs the Arduino RRD library, which can be found here: https://github.com/alberanid/arduino-rrd
• build the backboard and install the various pieces as you wish (I've put a small paper heart on the stick rotated by the servo; inside it, there a red LED).
• upload the program to your Arduino UNO board.
• throw something into your trashcan.
• prepare to be loved!

Davide Alberani [email protected] (C) 2012 http://www.mimante.net/

The music library is released under the terms of the MIT license; the rest of the code is covered by the GPL 3 or later license. The videos, pictures and the circuit diagram are covered by a by-sa/3.0 creative commons license.