18 Sep
1998
18 Sep
'98
8:33 p.m.
Wirehead Prime wrote:
I thought of doing two of those, put wheels on the
steppers, use two to
push it around in various directions, mount a pair plastic replicas of
table-saw blades on the drive motors, mount those on top and then do some
code on a microcontroller that would look at an up-pointing photocell,
move the thing around until it was hiding under someplace dark, then wait
until some forward looking sensors saw movement and then pop out, spin
the phoney saw blades and trip one of those digital recorder chips to play
the sound of a chain saw or table saw and have it chase the
movement...just to scare the bejeesus out of people. =-D
Twisted fun for the whole family!
Cheaper than the digital recorder chips (since the thing's got to be
big enough to notice, there'll be some empty space inside) is just an
old cheap tape player (even with chips, you still need an amplifier
and speakers) with an answering machine loop tape of a chainsaw. The
chip method is preferable for a multi-purpose machine (chainsaw,
dental drill, Clinton advising perjury, chestburster alien, lightsaber,
puking coed, etc.).
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright