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

[William Sutton]

I'm guessing randomly shaped would be easier to put back together than 
uniform rectangles.

William Sutton

On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Chris Merrill 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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