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

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Wouldn't it be COOL though!

Paul G.



>From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] WAS: Howzat work then? NOW: Automating furniture
>Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:16:14 +0100
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>
>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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