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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-31 11:17:47 +0000, Blueshirt said:   
      
   > Daniel70 wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 30/12/2025 11:02 pm, Blueshirt wrote:   
   >>> Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There was a project that I always meant to do for our   
   >>>> university open days, but I never got around to it. The   
   >>>> idea was to attach wheels and a motor to the bottom of a   
   >>>> metal garbage can, and add some suitable control   
   >>>> electronics. I would then set the device to wandering the   
   >>>> corridors, saying "Exterminate" in a suitable voice.   
   >>>   
   >>> That would have been a cool project.   
   >>   
   >> Would have been more appropriate if the Garbage Bin had been   
   >> up-ended before the wheels were attached.   
   >>   
   >> I mean ... The Daleks were thinner at the top than at the   
   >> bottom!   
   >   
   > The metal dustbins of those days were generally uniform in size,   
   > silver metal and had domed lids... so you could stretch your   
   > imagination and make Daleks out of them, if you were that way   
   > inclined.   
   >   
   > A remote controlled metal dustbin tearing down a corridor sounds   
   > like it could have been fun!   
      
   One of many ...   
      
      RC Wheelie bin/Trash Can   
         
      
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