Automated Trash Chute

One of our customers would like us to design an automated trash chute that will drop trash from his kitchen down to the trash bin in the lower level of the house. The customer wants to install this chute because he is in a wheel chair and finds it difficult to get down to the lower level trash bin. The constraints of the design are as follows:

1. The trash chute should be the size of a VEX cube.

2. The trap door of the chute should hold the trash (VEX cube) when it is closed.

3. The chute should be opened with the use of a touch LED. The touch LED should glow RED when it is closed and GREEN when it is opened.

4. The display screen (VEX IQ Brain) should display CLOSED (when the chute door is closed) and OPEN (when the chute door is open).