Published in Binit.tech·Jul 5BINIT users in Austin hit 37% waste reduction average week on weekWhen we started this project we knew there was a problem we could help solve and a service we could provide, the problem being people’s anxiety when it comes to how much waste they produce on any given day, and the service being data mining and analysis that would help…Austin4 min read
Published in Binit.tech·Jun 23My note to our ATX test participantsGreetings to y’all! Finally, here we are, stage 3, where you will have a chance to compare your own score from stage 2 against the community average. We broke down all the numbers to a per person average, so rather than looking at household totals, we will now be looking…Co 23 min read
Published in Binit.tech·Jun 21What mountain running can teach us about startupsSometimes it feels like you are working for nothing, that everything and more is going wrong, and that the smartest thing to do, is to take this damn computer, chuck it out the window, forget about solving a problem and go have a beer, two or ten. …Trailrunning4 min read
Published in Binit.tech·May 31Binit targeting the gap between 77 and 5Over the course of the last four weeks, I stumbled upon two numbers that each in its own right says everything about why we started Binit. According to Forbes 77% of all Americans want to live more sustainably, of which 40% said they are most concerned about plastic pollution. And…Plastic Pollution3 min read
Published in Binit.tech·Apr 12From Ripple to StaircaseThe quest for product improvement continues. After solving our display issue we started to see a significant ripple effect in our data readings. Rather than a data graph looking like a staircase, weight going up over time as waste is disposed of, our graphs looked more like cardiograms. …Data Validation5 min read
Published in Ljubljana Institute·Apr 8War in UkraineMilitary / Economic ANALYSIS Part 1 by Andrej Benedejcic More than one month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is now clear that Moscow underestimated the Ukrainian will to fight, and EU/US appetite to supply Ukraine with ample supply of state of the art weapon systems. Moscow started the…Ukraine5 min read
Published in Ljubljana Institute·Apr 7The EU suffered a major loss in Nagorno-Karabakh23 November 2020 Earlier this month Russian President Vladimir Putin huddled with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and in a few hours hammered out a peace agreement to stop the month-long Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The peace deal is incredibly short, explicit and to the…Frozen Conflict4 min read
Published in Binit.tech·Mar 30From Recall to 2nd Generation DeviceInevitably hardware development and prototyping hits a wall sooner or later. We just hit one, and it will probably not be our last wall either. Today we issued a recall on ALL the devices deployed in Austin in February. The reason: partly structural and partly code related. On the structural…Recall5 min read
Published in Binit.tech·Mar 22Prototyping and the learning curvePrototyping your devices is a dynamic period for any startup. It’s also fun, with lots of hours spent in the garage, drilling, affixing, coding, and innovating. Beer and more beer; team bonding 101. Don’t skip this step. It gives you a deep understanding of the problem you are trying to…Prototyping4 min read
Published in Binit.tech·Mar 16The Heartbeat of WasteMost think of the household bin as a place where things go to die, or where dead things go to be buried. Discarded items, which we no longer care for and are antsy to get rid of. I had a similar relationship to my bin for most of my life…Binit Thacker4 min read
