Greetings 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…

Sometimes 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. Especially now that…

Over 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…

The 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. Even to…

Military / 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…

23 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…

Inevitably 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…

Prototyping 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…

Most 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…