Automatic Toilet Flusher

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Hi everyone maybe you can help me out

My room mates never flush the toilet and no matter how much I yell at them
they still do not flush the toilet.

I want to build an automatic toilet flusher so all they have todo is pass there hand by it or just have a timer when it detected someone.

Here's what I have an idea of what I need

1 servo

1 Pic micro controller 16F627A

1 Ir receiver

1 Ir led

and I already know the resistors and caps I need.

Should I go with a different approach for programing or do you think that this sounds like a pretty solid toilet flusher?

Hi Techbuilder,

No sense “re-inventing the wheel”.
To get an idea of various ways, already in use.

Paste this:
automatic flush infrared

Into here:
http://www.google.com/patents

It is perfectly legal and acceptable to adopt patent ideas for your own use, but not for resale or distribution.
(Edit: For the record. The above statement is incorrect. It is NOT “legal and acceptable to adopt patent ideas for your own use”. The law allows some very special exceptions but I was in error stating this so broadly. Thanks to tenaja for correcting my mistake. –Adam-)

You can get an idea of what is needed to “do the job”. The whole mechanical side may be a problem.

-Adam-