RE: WAS: Howzat work then? NOW: Automating furniture

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Now, you may laugh.... (in fact I'd rather you did)

but I have a perfectly serious plan to put my kitchen bin on a motorised
platform!... The story goes like this...

I have one of those 80litre chrome kitchen bins that you may have seen -
looks a bit like R2D2 in size and shape... but since I had the new boiler
fitted in the kitchen, this bin doesn't really have a home any more, so it
just tends t  sit in the middle of the floor, and gets pushed about all
over
the place, as it is constantly in the way. Because I was worried that it
might eventually scuff the floor through being slid about, I thought I'd
bolt some castor wheels on the bottom of it...

So then it's a natural progression (well, it is to me anyway), t  think
well, if it's on wheels anyway, why not motorise them so I don't have to
push the thing around, it can move under it's own power.. Of course, I dont
want t  have to pick up a R/C controller t  move it about, so I need some
way of making it move about under it's own "intelligence",
perhaps one of
the Lego Mindstorms robotics kits or something, - I'm thinking something
sound activated perhaps, - I shout at the bin and it dutifully trundles
over
to me, perhaps even following me around the kitchen?.... then it dutifully
trundles away again and parks itself somewhere out of the way...

What D'ya think? - am I mad?.... (I know what SWMBO would say t  that if I
told her this plan!)

Paul G.


>Paul please tell us what built in gadgets this furniture has
...speakers
>in the table legs? an x10 contolled lazy susan?
>
>
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