[TriLUG] OT - need a good local place to shred a lot of documentsin Durham

Jeremy Davis jeremyhwllc at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 16:08:30 EDT 2012


i had a similar thought a while ago. The laser would be a nice way to do it.
A magnifying glass might do the same thing out in direct sunlight. or a
series of magnifying glasses.
On Aug 8, 2012 4:02 PM, "Chris Merrill" <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:

> On 8/8/2012 3:30 PM, Jeremy Davis wrote:
> > The problem with burning paper in a burn barrel is it does not burn
> without
> > continous stirring. It can take a very long laborious time to burn a
> small
> > amount.
>
> > So the Arduino/Raspberry Pi project needs to periodically feed the fire a
> > few sheets at a time into the barrel. Might be able to integrate with
> > OpenCV to identify how well the fire is doing to determine the optimum
> time
> > to feed a few more sheets.
> >
> > It might be easier to feed into an old gas grill a few sheets at a time.
> > Then no one calls the law thinking it is a burn barrel.
>
> Last weekend I saw a demo of a laser wood-carving CNC unit. Couple that
> with an software controller
> and a sheet feeder from an old printer and we could laser-cut stacks of
> pages into randomly shaped
> chads. Probably not very efficient, but we should be able to deter all but
> the most determined
> criminals from putting those pieces back together :>
>
>
>
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