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

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Jo love ... look ... theres someone here makes me look normal!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 July 2001 14:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] WAS: Howzat work then? NOW: Automating furniture
>
>
> 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
> to 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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