By YASEMIN TALAT
CAROLINE SPRINGS resident Mehmet Cileli has created an extraordinary invention to help with an ordinary household task.
Mr Cileli, who his friends jokingly call Mr Gadget, has put together a system which helps automatically bring the garbage bins in and out each week.
He said initially it was something his family really needed but now they enjoyed the luxury of the creation.
“Every Monday night the bins come out and as soon as they pick up the second bin and put it back, they come back in,” he said.
When first moving into his home he discovered the design of the garden, with the layout of stones, was not ideal for moving the bins.
And to keep the bins in the garage became a growing hassle because of the family cars and occasionally forgetting.
“I had to do something because some mornings we would forget to take them out and I would run out in my pyjamas when I would hear the truck,” Mr Cileli said.
The bins sit on an aluminium platform which moves with the help of a solar powered battery system and can also be controlled by remote controls, radio frequency and Bluetooth.
This is the new version of the prototype Mr Cileli created nine year ago, and has been running for the last two months.
It also has a warning alert, a voice recording of Mr Cileli’s daughter, which echoes in the family home to let them know the bins were on the way out – one last chance to empty the household bins, Mr Cileli said.
“It was hard to put it all together and bring it to this point,” he said.
“But it was a pleasure to create something like this, to think about it and make it – I really enjoyed doing it.”
