It’s fairly obviously a production with many takes and supporting actors rather than a real continuous flight, but the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority is nevertheless investigating it. Someone complies, and the tasty treat is flown back over suburbia to our hero in his tub. The drone lowers a bag on a string over people queuing, with a note saying “Please buy snag(Aussie slang for sausage) and put in bag, here’s $10”. We see the flight over houses and a main road to a local branch of Bunnings, an Australian hardware store chain. Their sausage sizzle is a weekly institution in which local non-profit groups sell barbecued sausages from a stall in the car park as a fundraiser. An Australian man in Sunbury, west of Melbourne, is to face a fine of up to A$9000 for using his multirotor to pick up a sausage in a bun from a stall in a superstore car park, and deliver it to him relaxing in his hot tub.įrom one perspective the video of the event which we’ve posted below the break is a very entertaining film. Whether it’s an accurate depiction or not is something you’d have to ask an Australian, but it seems to provide a blueprint for at least some real-life stories. Entertaining 30-second stories of wily young Aussies, and their inventive schemes to get their hands on a cool glass of the Amber Nectar.
If you hail from somewhere to which Australian beers have been exported, you could be forgiven for forming a view of the country based solely on TV adverts for Foster’s, or Castlemaine XXXX. Video of it in operation after the break.Ĭontinue reading “Launitor Saves You From Accidentally Smelly Clothes” → Posted in Arduino Hacks, home hacks Tagged accelerometers, arduino, ESP8266, huzzah, laundry, vibration It took some fiddling, but these days ’s clothes are fresher, his cats fed, and his appliances more aware.
We really like the way he mounts them to the side of the washer dryer using the PCB’s mounting screws as angle brackets. The case is a standard project box with some snazzy orange acrylic on the front. The piezos had lots of shortcomings, so he switched to accelerometers and things worked much better. He started off with an Arduino-and-ESP8226 combination and piezo sensors. When the load is done it will bother him until he comes down to push the button or There Will Come Soft Rains. Add a vibration sensor to the side of the machine along with some brains.
What if his washer/dryer could email or text him about his laundry? It seemed simple enough. However, while fallible, he is not powerless. So he can’t be blamed for occasionally forgetting the laundry in one of the machines and coming back to a less than stellar result.