/challenges-projects/project14/crazyarduinoautomations/b/crazy-arduino-automations-blog/posts/the-wrongco-hamper-helper---experiment-1-dirty-clothes-pile-height-detection---not-so-goodHereeeeee weeeeeeeeeeeeee go, the WRONGCO Hamper Helper When you walk into the room, the Hamper Helper will let you know if the hamper is full and you need to wash clothes, by flashing a sign and an audible annoying beeper.. No worry, if the laundry en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/crazyarduinoautomations/b/crazy-arduino-automations-blog/posts/the-wrongco-hamper-helper---experiment-1-dirty-clothes-pile-height-detection---not-so-goodTue, 02 May 2023 18:47:15 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d5246401-c1c7-4b3b-80a8-51c735b2cf54DAB0<p>As nice project.</p> <p>My wife waits until she no longer has anything to wear before she does laundry.</p> <p>I do mine every week, so I always have clean clothes to wear.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=25852&AppID=411&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/crazyarduinoautomations/b/crazy-arduino-automations-blog/posts/the-wrongco-hamper-helper---experiment-1-dirty-clothes-pile-height-detection---not-so-goodTue, 02 May 2023 16:45:28 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d5246401-c1c7-4b3b-80a8-51c735b2cf54dang741<p>Looks like a pretty fun project.&nbsp; There is that old expression, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?&nbsp; When I read earlier that you will use a sensor before doing things like spray the air freshener it made me wonder if the old idiom applies to smell as well.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=25852&AppID=411&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/crazyarduinoautomations/b/crazy-arduino-automations-blog/posts/the-wrongco-hamper-helper---experiment-1-dirty-clothes-pile-height-detection---not-so-goodTue, 02 May 2023 13:37:52 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d5246401-c1c7-4b3b-80a8-51c735b2cf54scottiebabe0<p>A very handy gadget! Anytime I have seen 38 kHz IR receiver being used they have had their supply RC low-pass filtered.</p> <p><img src="/resized-image/__size/1280x720/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-d5246401-c1c7-4b3b-80a8-51c735b2cf54/pastedimage1683034522185v1.png" alt=" " /></p> <p>Perhaps there is just too much EM-Trash noise lurking around the breadboard...</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=25852&AppID=411&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/crazyarduinoautomations/b/crazy-arduino-automations-blog/posts/the-wrongco-hamper-helper---experiment-1-dirty-clothes-pile-height-detection---not-so-goodTue, 02 May 2023 01:38:56 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d5246401-c1c7-4b3b-80a8-51c735b2cf54robogary0<p>How can something so right, be so wrong ?&nbsp;</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=25852&AppID=411&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">