Trash-Bot

If you build it big enough, you can lob the trash bags into the garbage truck from a couple blocks away.

My bad. Safest cannon on the block, though. How about nitrogen tri-iodide?

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

As in "Bangers & mash", British (not so haute) cusine:

Apparently (I don't see anything definitive on it) bangers are so-called because they were made of particularly poor quality ingredients during WWII and tended to pop when cooked. J. Woodgate would know for sure, but I hesitate to add sci.lang.translation to the list.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Ah yes......my favorite instrument of warfare.....the trebuchet. I want to build one for my back yard that will launch a water balloon to the stop sign located six houses down from mine (about 700'). That way I can get even with the local hoodlums that like to fly past my house when they approximate their stop at the corner. It will need to be quiet, triggerable by remote control (no problem on that) and auto reloading. That way I can sit in the front yard and enjoy the fun. :-D I really like the kind that use simple leverage and weight, no springs.

CaC2 + H2O => C2H2 + CaO

C2H2 + 4O2 => 2CO2 + 2H2O + boom! ;-)

Cheers! Rich

And if you could teach your dog to use the foot pedal, you wouldn't need to clean up after him. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Bwahahahaha! Having been to Punkin' Chunkin' I can well imagine how well a siege engine would go over in most neighborhoods.

Up next... the piano!

Hmmm, get the truck to broadcast it's GPS coordinates and you'd really have something!

Hey. Maybe in order to reduce car thefts, cars could make a lot of noise if they're being tampered with. Oh, wait - never mind.

Mitch

"Launching a Missile at a Motor Vehicle." Class 6 misdemeanor. I know this all too well.

automagically.

requirements that

If you can lob it that far, you can stop paying the garbage service altogether. And you don't even have to hit the truck.

try multiple four hundred pound people, many of whom are forced to use breathing machines ironicly.

"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in news:V_2Af.81336$Dk.46956 @tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com:

I want to do something similiar. But I wanted the bot to leave it at the curb. And getting the can off itself and onto the curb seemed too hard. I planned on making the robot big enough so the can rides in the center and the bot could lift and lower it into place. It could also bring multiple cans to the curb, one at a time. (And I wouldn't have to worry about someone walking away with it either.)

Also, it has to be waterproof. There's nothing worse than dragging your garbage cans to the curb in the pouring rain.

I can only imagine how badly beseiged castle defenders must have felt when they saw a couple of those suckers appear off in the distance heading their way.

-- Bobby G.

Actually, the truck could have several pre-determined stop areas. Just imagine. It pulls up to a stop area, opens up the tarp covering the payload area, and at the stroke of 6:00 AM (or whatever) garbage bags come flying in from all quarters. At 6:01 AM, the driver puts the tarp back in place over the payload and drives on to the next stop area.

--Mac

Yes, I reckon a 'banger' would be a poor example.

There are some absolutely fabulous sausages around these days. A favouite of mine is pork and apple.

Some of the finest sausages are traditionally made locally. We used to have here a combination 'wet fish shop' and game butcher. They made some remarkable sauasges containing all manner of exotic ingrediaents and had numerous awards on display. Sadly the demand for such shops ahs been in decline as supermarkets offer a wider range of produce and it's now closed.

Sauage and mash is great comfort food btw and a 'pub-fare' classic !

Graham

Success in the eye of the beholder. "Potential problems with pedestrians" means tens of thousands dead every year in the U.S. I have no idea the worldwide toll. Yeah, cars are great. If you had any other product that killed as many people as cars do, it would be off the market in a heartbeat. Drive your fat American ass to McDonald's and honk at some of those pesky pedestrians along the way.

Is your suggestion that his idea is stupid, or are you simply envious of American ingenuity? Americans have ALWAYS found more creative and productive ways of doing things; even if it means building robots to do simple tasks to save time. Your racist view of Americans and their culture is uneducated and unfounded. Yes, many American's are overweight. This is because most work 10 hour days, do not eat right, and only have one week of holiday a year. This leaves little time for taking care of oneself.

I think the author has a wonderful idea, and I hope he markets his idea and becomes a millionaire by selling the technologies that come out this. Maybe then, he could open a factory in your country, where you can work for him on an assembly line.

Having a bad day Kell?

Good or bad, and I'm not judging which it is, automobiles have been a success from the standpoint of sales and marketing - the benchmark of commercial success, which is what an inventor would most likely be concerned with. I don't why you would think that I consider pedestrians to be "pesky" as I am often one myself or how you would know how fat my ass is (would you like a photo?) but beauty is, as you say, in the eyes of the beholder. While I don't eat at McDonalds, it too is a commercial success. McDonalds biggest growth area - as well as the automobile's for that matter - is in countries OTHER than the USA. This trend shows that the ROW seems to want to emulate the USA. BTW, I have a number of UK friends, all of whom fall into two categories; the ones who have emmigrated to the US and the ones that want to.

One has to wonder why anyone, other than a Usenet Troll, who is so adamantly opposed to an automation product concept like a robot would be lurking in an automation newsgroup.

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