Designing an intelligent lawnmower!!!

[Gene Stonerly]

These days, electronic parts are dirt-cheap and there are
video-cameras, cheap cpus and stuff that could be used
to create an intelligent lawnmower that can mow the lawn
on its own.

Laziness is the source of the world's greatest inventions and
I don't want to mow the lawn by myself, so I need to design
an automatic lawnmower.

What do I need to design such a system?

 

[Clifford Heath]

These days, electronic parts are dirt-cheap and there are
video-cameras, cheap cpus and stuff that could be used
to create an intelligent lawnmower that can mow the lawn
on its own.

Laziness is the source of the world's greatest inventions and
I don't want to mow the lawn by myself, so I need to design
an automatic lawnmower.

What do I need to design such a system?

Wat you need is the intelligence to use Google to find the numerous
times it's already been done.

 

[Mike Silva]

What do I need to design such a system?

In all seriousness, the first thing you need is a very healthy respect
for the fact that you're proposing to design an autonomous, unattended
system that has a large, high-speed cutting blade (and it's probably
an attractive nuisance as well). The potential for damage and/or
injury is BIG.

 

[John Larkin]

These days, electronic parts are dirt-cheap and there are
video-cameras, cheap cpus and stuff that could be used
to create an intelligent lawnmower that can mow the lawn
on its own.

Laziness is the source of the world's greatest inventions and
I don't want to mow the lawn by myself, so I need to design
an automatic lawnmower.

What do I need to design such a system?

Roundup?

John

 

[Ecnerwal]

Sheep.

 

[Martin Griffith]

Sheep.

I think goats are better, less methane
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_101581.html?nav_src=newsIndexHeadline


martin

 

[MooseFET]

In all seriousness, the first thing you need is a very healthy respect
for the fact that you're proposing to design an autonomous, unattended
system that has a large, high-speed cutting blade (and it's probably
an attractive nuisance as well). The potential for damage and/or
injury is BIG.

Maybe not. Imagine a tiny-tiny cutter made with MEMS technology. The
silicon chip can have the logic, and drive. A second chip will be a
solar cell and perhaps a third one as a GPS.

The robot finds a blade of grass, measures it, and then saws it off at
the right length and then goes on to the next. It also can have some
chemical sensors to know that what it is cutting is the grass. If it
finds a weed, it saws it off at the ground.

 

[MooseFET]

I think goats are better, less methanehttp://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_101581.html?nav_src=newsIndexHea...

Keep curry powder on hand for the ones that need to retire.

 

[John Larkin]

Maybe not. Imagine a tiny-tiny cutter made with MEMS technology. The
silicon chip can have the logic, and drive. A second chip will be a
solar cell and perhaps a third one as a GPS.

The robot finds a blade of grass, measures it, and then saws it off at
the right length and then goes on to the next. It also can have some
chemical sensors to know that what it is cutting is the grass. If it
finds a weed, it saws it off at the ground.

It should be possible to design a hair clipper that snips only grey
hairs.

John

 

[Paul Burke]

I think goats are better, less methane

They'll also mow your flowerbeds, the hedge and roses (down to ground
level), the neighbours gardens, the washing, and as I'm unreliably
informed, the bodywork of Trabants. Goats are all too intelligent.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Roundup?

John

Hire dimbulb to eat it, and maybe he can save up his pennies for
another video game.

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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Jim Thompson]

It should be possible to design a hair clipper that snips only grey
hairs.

John

No problem here... they're ALL gray ;-)

...Jim Thompson

 

[T]

Maybe not. Imagine a tiny-tiny cutter made with MEMS technology. The
silicon chip can have the logic, and drive. A second chip will be a
solar cell and perhaps a third one as a GPS.

The robot finds a blade of grass, measures it, and then saws it off at
the right length and then goes on to the next. It also can have some
chemical sensors to know that what it is cutting is the grass. If it
finds a weed, it saws it off at the ground.

Probably be easier to genetically engineer the grass to only grow to a
certain height.

 

[T]

It should be possible to design a hair clipper that snips only grey
hairs.

John

Yeah but then people would be walking around with big clumps of hair
missing.

 

[T]

They'll also mow your flowerbeds, the hedge and roses (down to ground
level), the neighbours gardens, the washing, and as I'm unreliably
informed, the bodywork of Trabants. Goats are all too intelligent.

Growing up my cousins lived about 13 miles away on a few acres of land
and they had a pet goat. That damned goat ate EVERYTHING.

 

[krw]

These days, electronic parts are dirt-cheap and there are
video-cameras, cheap cpus and stuff that could be used
to create an intelligent lawnmower that can mow the lawn
on its own.

Laziness is the source of the world's greatest inventions and
I don't want to mow the lawn by myself, so I need to design
an automatic lawnmower.

Get a job and pay someone to mow your lawn. I make a lot more as an
engineer than I would as a grounds keeper.

What do I need to design such a system?

I would start with a good personal injury attorney. Maybe he can
talk you out of this silly idea.

 

[Jim Thompson]

Probably be easier to genetically engineer the grass to only grow to a
certain height.

If I can train the dogs to pee in the rocks I'm going to put in
artificial turf ;-)

...Jim Thompson

 

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

These days, electronic parts are dirt-cheap and there are
video-cameras, cheap cpus and stuff that could be used
to create an intelligent lawnmower that can mow the lawn
on its own.

Laziness is the source of the world's greatest inventions and
I don't want to mow the lawn by myself, so I need to design
an automatic lawnmower.

What do I need to design such a system?

Paid up liability insurance.

This isn't a Roomba that will just scare the cat if it gets away.

 

[Joseph2k]

It should be possible to design a hair clipper that snips only grey
hairs.

John

Would not have been all that useful for me, i had grey
(well salt and pepper) hair since i was 17. Nearly all white now.

JosephKK

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Would not have been all that useful for me, i had grey
(well salt and pepper) hair since i was 17. Nearly all white now.

Me too. I blamed my teachers for my gray hair.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida