Comments on: Robotic baby crib

By: dimiss

dimiss — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:13:42 +0000

Do I see correct but it seems that the remote control is via wire…is this correct? if so – how remote exactly it is? :-)

By: Lester

Lester — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:08:06 +0000

If you look at the pix of the crib it does not move back and fort on the wheels but the bed section moves back and forth on the base. I would NOT drop 5k on the thing tho.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:43:18 +0000

tubeless,
I didn’t see that one coming. I was ready to be offended (for the first time ever) but the I laughed til I almost puked! Good stuff!

By: LarrySDonald

LarrySDonald — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:56:17 +0000

I’ve brought two up. I modded one of those bears that make womb-noise sounds to be noise activated (having it on constantly seemed to get her acclimated after the first bit), but I didn’t take notes and used only parts from a pretty random tape recorder that had the same function, just located the on/off wire and soldered to it. They loved the cheap automatic rocker chairs. One liked having an ages old PC running acidwarp in front of it, when she she woke up she’d stare at it in fascination for a while and then go back to sleep (noticed she loved it on mine and set one up).

By: Sp`ange

Sp`ange — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:44:08 +0000

I learned to sleep sitting up while holding the baby. best hack ever.

By: pwl

pwl — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:59:20 +0000

If you don’t have a baby for this project you can of course MAKE ONE! It’s not that hard, you just need a willing woman partner, or if you’re a woman you’ll need a willing male partner. You can find instructions for this make project on the Intertubes everywhere. There are also many videos and magazines with details.

Once you have your baby in the oven you can proceed with the crib project. You can then spend many years enjoying both the crib and the baby.

Warning: the baby will grow up over the years and in the process consume many resources so be prepared. Fortunately your make skills can come in hand with the providing of these resources. You can also teach the baby how to make things, including it’s own babies (birds and bees project) so that your baby will provide for you in your rocking chair project stage of life.

Enjoy.

By: kellyamareta

kellyamareta — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:36:52 +0000

Awesome Invention!
inspiring!
it really made my day.
thank you.

By: Dan Fruzzetti

Dan Fruzzetti — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:34:22 +0000

I can’t imagine this working even a tiny fraction as well as an actual parent.

In fact, even if it worked by passively learning how the parent reacts (so it could copy exactly the same movements), it still wouldn’t work nearly as well. It can’t touch the baby with baby’s parent’s hand and it can’t breathe proximal air onto the baby (a big part of triggering some learned ‘soothed’ responses).

The subtleties make us human. And until it can replicate all of them, the product is probably overpriced.

By: Parental Unit 42 of Borg

Parental Unit 42 of Borg — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:04:03 +0000

We just mod our babies. Crying is futile.

http://www.trekfrontier.com/immdatabase/razze/borg/borg_baby.jpg

By: BigD145

BigD145 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:42:35 +0000

You’d be better off building a robotic baby that can change itself, feed itself, and burp itself.

By: Morden

Morden — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:54:41 +0000

I built my child a coffin to sleep in, it is motorized so it raises out of the floor in the morning so I can check and see if he is still breathing.

One day my efficiency will pay off

By: dravin21

dravin21 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:43:13 +0000

my baby boy is 1 year old now and out of boredom his crib then his bed moded for quiet night
the crib waas given a motor with a ver offbalancd wheel on it to make the thing vibrate and the baby moniter was built in to the headboard .. then his lil blue racecar bed has the same plus LED headlights and tail lights rather then the unreliable bulb blower i was useing before as a night light soon to come is an FM radio that he can play with

By: j9

j9 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:39:17 +0000

I just went to walmart and got a $40 battery-powered rocker. Then I hacked it to take a wallwart.

By: andar_b

andar_b — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:16:38 +0000

There is a theory that some of these low-frequency vibrations caused by taking the baby in the car or setting her on the washing machine may produce a low enough frequency to cause brain wave entrainment in a range that encourages sleep. BUT: only very high-end audio equipment can reproduce those ultra-low frequencies, so recordings of the sound will usually work differently.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:03:46 +0000

My baby get used to the air conditioning noise at night (she was born in summer), when winter arrived we did not used the AC anymore, so she would wake up every hour or two, so I recorded the AC noise in a CD and put it in continuous mode in a CD player, it work great!!