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  • Solar-Powered Trash Can FAIL

    Some time ago, Vassar deployed Big Belly solar-powered, network-connected, compacting trash cans. We recently walked across the campus to a play …

    Once is happenstance:

    Vassar Old Main - Broken Trash Can 1
    Vassar Old Main – Broken Trash Can 1

    Twice is coincidence:

    Vassar Old Main - Broken Trash Can 2
    Vassar Old Main – Broken Trash Can 2

    Those neatly printed signs suggested a common-mode failure, so we took the long way back to visit my all-time favorite trash can installation. Yup, three times is enemy action:

    Vassar Library - Broken Trash Can 3
    Vassar Library – Broken Trash Can 3

    You can still put trash in the containers through the obvious opening. Perhaps the networking failed?