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

["Kenneth Watt" <kennethwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Okay Paul, enough with the beer already, I mean I know it's hot and all
but...

:-)

K.

-----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 t  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...

S  then it's a natural progression (well, it is t  me anyway), t  think
well, if it's on wheels anyway, why not motorise them so I don't have t

push the thing around, it can move under it's own power.. Of course, I
dont
want t  have t  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
t  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
t ld 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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