AI Waste Sorter Kit

This kit serves one of our pillars: Waste & Circular — technology in the service of nature.

Build a machine that SEES a piece of rubbish, recognises whether it is plastic, paper or metal, and physically moves a sorting gate to drop it in the right place. The camera is the eye, AI is the brain, and a servo is the hand — the first real recycling robot a student can build and enter into a competition.

What's inside the kit?

• ESP32-CAM Dev Board w/ OV2640 Camera — The AI eye — camera + WiFi brain
• SG90 Micro Servo Motor 180° 1.8 kg.cm Plastic Gears — The sorting hand — moves the gate
• Micro SD Card Module for Arduino or MCU — Stores the image dataset & model
• USB to Serial TTL Converter Module CP2102 Chip — Flashes the AI code onto the camera
• BB-01 Breadboard 830 Tie Point — Build base (full breadboard)
• BB-J140 Connecting Jumper Wires for Breadboard (140 Wire) — Connections (140-wire set)
• Kit Resistor 1/4W - 100 Carbon Resistors 1% Tolerance 1/4W — Resistors for the circuit
• 0.96" OLED LCD Module — Show the live result on a screen

How the idea works

Every part in the kit has a job. Assembled in the right order they stop being loose parts and become a working system — one you build yourself, understand at every step, and see the result of with your own eyes. The included build guide walks you from zero to running.

Your journey: from kit to competition

• Build — assemble the kit and get it running.
• Understand — learn why each part is there and how it works.
• Improve — modify it, add a sensor, tune it, try your own idea.
• Make a project — turn the experiment into a project that solves a real environmental problem.
• Compete — enter your project into local and international competitions.

A good fit for tracks such as:

• Waste & Circular / التدوير

What you'll learn

• How a camera + AI recognise objects (computer-vision basics)
• Collecting and labelling an image dataset to train a model
• Controlling a servo motor to act on the AI's decision
• Why sorting waste correctly is the key to recycling

Extend & innovate

Add an OLED screen and a second servo to build a multi-bin sorter. Connect it to an IoT dashboard that logs what your home recycles each week, and grow the dataset so it learns to recognise glass, organic and e-waste too.