Comments on: Gotthard: intelligent furniture http://hackaday.com/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: nathan belomy http://hackaday.com/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/comment-page-1/#comment-27869 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:09:20 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/#comment-27869 dood i have one of those and my tv sits on it.

]]> By: :\\ http://hackaday.com/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/comment-page-1/#comment-27868 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:42:51 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/#comment-27868 Got ‘Tard?
I imagine walking into a house and having this thing approach me and playing a recording that says, “Oh jeez, will this thing stop following me with that damn tape recorder already?!”

]]> By: CaliRaisin http://hackaday.com/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/comment-page-1/#comment-27867 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:44:25 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/#comment-27867 lol, this reminds me of a story i’ve heard about a senior design project at my school. some students built something just like this for their professor to follow him and help carry books, but the professor kept on giving them a hard time with the project. so, they programmed into the code to reduce the following distance by a little each time the device was turned on. eventually, it kept on hitting the back of the professor’s legs, but by then the students already graduated :P

]]> By: Eric http://hackaday.com/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/comment-page-1/#comment-27866 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:50:13 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/#comment-27866 those things connected to the drill trigger look like model rocket engines / firecrackers…

]]> By: jim http://hackaday.com/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/comment-page-1/#comment-27865 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:47:52 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/#comment-27865 “…follow people around, record their conversations and play them back to other visitors…”

Gottard: “You’ll never guess what tracy said about our Sharron!”

]]> By: pascal http://hackaday.com/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/comment-page-1/#comment-27864 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:19:04 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/#comment-27864 yeah, the recording thing is creepy (and I have better uses for hardware as costly as an ibook…) but the driving rocks.
look at the “Gotthard fährt (drives)”-video, it seems that if you come near it from one side, it will drive away, from the other side it will drive to you (knocks knees away to force seating :) and coming from the other sides it drives in a curve…
and the way in which the wheels sink into the box when a person seats itself on the stool is also nice.

]]> By: Shadyman http://hackaday.com/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/comment-page-1/#comment-27863 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:18:54 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/#comment-27863 … Or playing them back to other visitors.

]]> By: Andrew Pollack http://hackaday.com/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/comment-page-1/#comment-27862 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:49:56 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2007/08/10/gotthard-intelligent-furniture/#comment-27862 I’m not sure I want my stool following me around and recording conversations.

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