This PROVES what I have long suspected. The REAL first law of robotics is, "Robots do NOT clean up their own messes." (That is what engineers and technicians are for.)
I guess we will get those little packets of ketchup in McDs for a long time to come.
I don't know why the world like to portray Tesla as being mad or going mad. No one suggests that Eddison was crazy, but he was the guy who was electrocuting elephants to death in public to prove how wrong Tesla might be. He also invented the electric chair. How bonkers do you have to be?
Quite many of us are going to lose our marbles in old age, perhaps Tesla did to. Sad, but that is how life goes.
" Quite many of us are going to lose our marbles in old age, perhaps Tesla did to. Sad, but that is how life goes. " - I think Tesla lost his marbles, because he was so far out there and couldn't relate many of his ideas to a level others could comprehend.... Well sort of, through out his life he experienced hallucinations, and by today's standards and scrutiny, he would have been locked away long before he ever had a chance to explore any of his ideas. Much of what Tesla accomplished he has only recently received credit for. ... An analogy as to why this particular stereo type (some of us) will 'lose our marbles' is like being shipwrecked on an island whith nobody to communicate with. There are a finite number of meaningful conversations you can have with yourself. :-)
@Loopy Byteloose
""Robots do NOT clean up their own messes." (That is what engineers and technicians are for" - can't stop laughing ... engineers and technicians cleaning up their own mess ... ha, now that's funny. :-)
If you ask,"DIdn't he did in a nut house?", it greatly inspires youth to independently read that person's biography. Mad scientists are great educational motivators. Tesla was in love with a female white pigeon late in his life. And Edison wasn't exactly mellow with age.
It all may have been a combination of mercury poisoning and lead poisoning. Who knows?
And now I am rather stuck. If robots don't clean up their own messes, and engineers don't clean up either the robot's messes or their own messes, and the technician's don't clean up the robots or the engineer's or their own messes - what's the world coming to?
Meanwhile local law requires that I clean up all my dog's messes. I fear the world has passed me by and I might just have to clean up all the robotic messes as well.
Now, if it was spreading mustard...
The 'coarse' type, preferably.
Lets see...
1. Tracked vehicle suitable for modding?
2. A Prop board of some sort. (Got a stack of them, no prob there)
3. A powered 'injector' system of some sort. Maybe one of those battery-powered 'guns' you use for cartridges of caulking and bathroom silicone would do?
4. Probably a clean, empty cartridge to fill the mustard into.
5. Time to actually build the thing...
6. Lots of hot dogs and burgers to test it out on...
That is very cool except for the poor dispensing. It is comical and serves a purpose in that manner, but as a practical "proof of concept" it misses the target (pun intended). There is a company here in CA that makes dispensing equipment for the food industry and one of their products was a tomato sauce dispenser for pizza dough. It looked like a turntable and the "needle" was the business end of a pneumatic pump mechanism. Dough was rolled out to the desired diameter and set onto the round table (pun not intended). Push a button corresponding to the diameter and the table spun under the "needle". The result was a spiral bead of sauce evenly distributed across the dough.
An easy way to resolve the dispensing issue on this one would be to harvest the innards from one of those touchless soap dispensers made by Lysol, etc. Ketchup and liquid soap are near the same viscosity, so it should work well. Not sure how to shake it when the ketchup begins to separate though........
I am having a solenoid availability problem here in Taiwan. I've figure out that I could launch chopstick in a rapid fire set-up if I could only locate some good solenoids. Nobody in town has them and I don't want to bother importing a few from Electronic Goldmine.
Have you all learned the Ketchup poem?
Shake, shake
Shake the bottle
None will come
Then a lot 'll
Now that I know it is a 'non-Newtonian fluid', I finally comprehend why shaking produces such frustrating results. Live and learn.
Ketchup or Catsup is actually one of the few Cantonese Chinese words directly adopted into the English language, won-ton is another. Ketchup simple means sauce.
The name "Automato" (derived from automaton, in case anyone missed it) alone is worth four stars. The spinning arms and huge mess are just icing on the cake!
The name "Automato" (derived from automaton, in case anyone missed it) alone is worth four stars. The spinning arms and huge mess are just icing on the cake!
Which means it may not behave the same as the liquid soap.
Good point! that is very true. Maybe it can be resolved with some sort of pressure on the vessel that contains the ketchup. Sort of the reason you never have to shake a ketchup packet like crazy to get the last bit out. Also, having the vessel coated with MIT's Ligui-Glide would further resolve that concern, not that you can get your hands on it at the moment.
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Parallax, hook up with a sponsor for product placement...something dispensable and or edible, quick!
same here
The title sort of reminds me of a quote from Nikola Tesla ... after watching a passing thunder storm, he said " I can do better than that " :-)
I guess we will get those little packets of ketchup in McDs for a long time to come.
Quite many of us are going to lose our marbles in old age, perhaps Tesla did to. Sad, but that is how life goes.
" Quite many of us are going to lose our marbles in old age, perhaps Tesla did to. Sad, but that is how life goes. " - I think Tesla lost his marbles, because he was so far out there and couldn't relate many of his ideas to a level others could comprehend.... Well sort of, through out his life he experienced hallucinations, and by today's standards and scrutiny, he would have been locked away long before he ever had a chance to explore any of his ideas. Much of what Tesla accomplished he has only recently received credit for. ... An analogy as to why this particular stereo type (some of us) will 'lose our marbles' is like being shipwrecked on an island whith nobody to communicate with. There are a finite number of meaningful conversations you can have with yourself. :-)
@Loopy Byteloose
""Robots do NOT clean up their own messes." (That is what engineers and technicians are for" - can't stop laughing ... engineers and technicians cleaning up their own mess ... ha, now that's funny. :-)
It all may have been a combination of mercury poisoning and lead poisoning. Who knows?
And now I am rather stuck. If robots don't clean up their own messes, and engineers don't clean up either the robot's messes or their own messes, and the technician's don't clean up the robots or the engineer's or their own messes - what's the world coming to?
Meanwhile local law requires that I clean up all my dog's messes. I fear the world has passed me by and I might just have to clean up all the robotic messes as well.
Now, if it was spreading mustard...
The 'coarse' type, preferably.
Lets see...
1. Tracked vehicle suitable for modding?
2. A Prop board of some sort. (Got a stack of them, no prob there)
3. A powered 'injector' system of some sort. Maybe one of those battery-powered 'guns' you use for cartridges of caulking and bathroom silicone would do?
4. Probably a clean, empty cartridge to fill the mustard into.
5. Time to actually build the thing...
6. Lots of hot dogs and burgers to test it out on...
I'm really into the testing part of your plan there:)
I'm thinking it would be a hit at an eight year old's birthday party, maybe outdoors....
An easy way to resolve the dispensing issue on this one would be to harvest the innards from one of those touchless soap dispensers made by Lysol, etc. Ketchup and liquid soap are near the same viscosity, so it should work well. Not sure how to shake it when the ketchup begins to separate though........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Newtonian_fluid
Which means it may not behave the same as the liquid soap.
Have you all learned the Ketchup poem?
Shake, shake
Shake the bottle
None will come
Then a lot 'll
Now that I know it is a 'non-Newtonian fluid', I finally comprehend why shaking produces such frustrating results. Live and learn.
Ketchup or Catsup is actually one of the few Cantonese Chinese words directly adopted into the English language, won-ton is another. Ketchup simple means sauce.
Yes! That thing could apply icing to cakes as well:)
some say : otto-may-toe some say otto-mah-toe
Good point! that is very true. Maybe it can be resolved with some sort of pressure on the vessel that contains the ketchup. Sort of the reason you never have to shake a ketchup packet like crazy to get the last bit out. Also, having the vessel coated with MIT's Ligui-Glide would further resolve that concern, not that you can get your hands on it at the moment.