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

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

LOL! my type of guy! t tally off your trolley:-)

Go for it!!!

B.

(hope received in good humour)


> -----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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