Products that don't exist yet, but should

[it]

take the gripper off of this:

(not the robotic arm, just the coffee-sack & air pump)

stick it on the bottom of this:


upload the software of this:


and unleash it upon the household! might also make for an awkward waiter...

p.s.
maybe paint a smiley face on the the gripper so that it doesn't look like a flying penis

[xoxoxoBruce]

Nooo, I'd never be able to find anything.

[it]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Nooo, I'd never be able to find anything.

it wasn't me!



















(it was my flying penis)

[Gravdigr]

Traceur's TEDTalk clip reminded me of this (can't remember if I found this here, or not):



Replace the baton with a longneck BudLight, and then ya got something.

[Lamplighter]

That is truly amazing programming !

By coincidence, last week I watched a teenage girl practicing
with one of those old fashioned toys: a cup on a handle, a ball on a string like this:


Where the object is to swing the ball up and catch it in the cup.

Apparently, that sort of thing would be "child's play" for these guys.

[it]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Traceur's TEDTalk clip reminded me of this (can't remember if I found this here, or not):



Replace the baton with a longneck BudLight, and then ya got something.

makes me wonder if the aerodynamics of the quad would still work if it was placed beneath a tray.

i'm really open to the idea of having them waitress, i'd even treat it like i would like to treat a waitress, but... on which side is the bum?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by traceur

makes me wonder if the aerodynamics of the quad would still work if it was placed beneath a tray.

i'm really open to the idea of having them waitress, i'd even treat it like i would like to treat a waitress, but... on which side is the bum?

what about a tray made of expanded metal or mesh?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Go to this (pdf) showing several types/sizes of expanded metal mesh. The last column shows the "% open area" for each. It can run from 40% to over 75%.

Years ago, I saw charts in the Engineering Handbook or McMaster-Carr catalog, showing how much screen and woven wire mesh block.

[glatt]

I'd like to see how that make the steel mesh out of one plate of metal.

When doing work on my house, I've run into a plaster reinforcing mesh at the corners of some walls. That stuff is a bitch to cut cleanly through to do a patch. It wants to take the whole wall with it.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by glatt

I'd like to see how that make the steel mesh out of one plate of metal.

When doing work on my house, I've run into a plaster reinforcing mesh at the corners of some walls. That stuff is a bitch to cut cleanly through to do a patch. It wants to take the whole wall with it.

the technique is called slit and stretch. the video shows the machine in action, this link has a simplified animated drawing that is much clearer. Here's one more animation that could be helpful.