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

["Mick Furlong" <dorsai@xxxxxxx>]

Mad? of course you are mad!

Although I did t y with the idea of putting a wireless xcam on a robot to
turn it into a mobile security guard...add a taser and away ya go ;)

Hmm did anyone see that Swedish (I think ) alarm klaxon that would make
people
physically ill? ;)

Mick

Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx> said:

> 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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