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_at_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
Received on Sat Sep 19 1998 - 03:33:44 BST