Ready-Set-Bumbot
The nursery is finished. The wife is in great health and she has her hospital bag packed. The twins were due yesterday. We're finally ready for our girls, our first. Labor could·start any second now. One chapter of life is ending and another is starting.
As this milestone aproaches, I look for ways to help·my lovely·wife. This is her full-time job from now on. A stay at home mom, over 40, with twins. I can't help but think that a robotic baby transport would be a good thing. If you haven't yet seen all 3 Ready-Set-Bumbo videos, you're in for a real treat. Start at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5dPMtuZsCw·and watch 'em all. If I can make a Bumbo baby seat·move around anything like that, it would be fantastic! You know, a Bum-Bot! I won't need the·Teleport function yet (that might require a Propeller), so I think a scaled-up Boe-Bot platform would almost fill the bill. A simple diff-drive platform that could carry one child and follow a line or beacon from the nursery to the kitchen or·living room. That would free up the wife to carry the other one...
Don't call Child Services just yet. I'm only thinking out loud here. It's not like I've already acquired two F-P·Power Wheels motors, wheels and a controller.·And I'd never try to make it fetch baby bottles or change diapers. That would be crazy.
Hmmm...
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·"If you build it, they will come."
As this milestone aproaches, I look for ways to help·my lovely·wife. This is her full-time job from now on. A stay at home mom, over 40, with twins. I can't help but think that a robotic baby transport would be a good thing. If you haven't yet seen all 3 Ready-Set-Bumbo videos, you're in for a real treat. Start at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5dPMtuZsCw·and watch 'em all. If I can make a Bumbo baby seat·move around anything like that, it would be fantastic! You know, a Bum-Bot! I won't need the·Teleport function yet (that might require a Propeller), so I think a scaled-up Boe-Bot platform would almost fill the bill. A simple diff-drive platform that could carry one child and follow a line or beacon from the nursery to the kitchen or·living room. That would free up the wife to carry the other one...
Don't call Child Services just yet. I'm only thinking out loud here. It's not like I've already acquired two F-P·Power Wheels motors, wheels and a controller.·And I'd never try to make it fetch baby bottles or change diapers. That would be crazy.
Hmmm...
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·"If you build it, they will come."
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I do not have a way to view the video now, but I will get back to you.
I still think the Methane Gas sensor for a diaper change alarm is a good idea! How about a robotic rocker to gently rock one - while you "manually" feed or change the other.
Glad you all are ready and well.
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
Great video. You have to make one of those in a robotic model. It must have the teleport button to be really cool. Steve Norris' Robostool is not far of the mark - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnwycXY6lk&feature=player_embedded·Add a backrest, a couple of arms and seat belt and you'd be on your way. Of course if you tried to but either baby in it - your wife would probably strap you in and send you packing.
We went to the Titanic exhibit several months ago. My son bought a Titanic in a bottle. He wanted it out of the bottle - bad! His solution was to make a shrink ray and make it smaller so that it would come out of the bottle and then enlarge it once it was out. I said I didn't know how to do that. His reply, "Can't you write the geniuses at Parallax and find out how?"
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
Post Edited (Whit) : 9/29/2009 2:17:15 AM GMT
Can my wife legally send me packing? I'm only trying to help her out!!! After all, God's giving us two kids, isn't one just for the DEBUG process? Why don't kids have a "RESET ALL" button?
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·"If you build it, they will come."
It has been great getting to know you through your post. Good luck with the family. Just think,·the next time·you have enough time to play with props, you will probably get to use the Prop III. Try to drop in and say hello every few months.
Father of one 11 year old. Just surfacing and back into robot work last year.
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Tia'Shar Manetheren
That's great news about the impending new family.·
One thing to ponder on:· this is probably the first generation that you could consider to be truly growing up with robots.··Don't worry about being dated by "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" or "Fantastic Voyage"!· What about those of us who remember that "bubble headed booby" in "Lost in Space" or marvelled at Gort in "The Day the Earth Stood Still"???· Not to mention the HAL9000 in 2001!· BTW, was that a sound effect from "The Jetsons" saucer that I heard in the Bumbo video???
You're right -·kids don't come with a "reset all" button OR a user manual.· And you will have to tweak the programming·24/7 for the rest of your life.· But the goods news is that you can play with them to your heart's content,·they're practically indestructible, and they'll run for hours on little more than a glass of milk!·
Anyway, all the best, and I hope all goes well.