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Richie "Gear" Foley (put_it_in_gear) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-08-26 19:57:00

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bak chang, duo maxwell, geordi la forge, malcolm reynolds, richie foley, yuuri shibuya

[Day 234] [Voice|Open|Backdated to Pre-Morning Announcement]
[So it's just after four in the morning and a certain someone has been skipping sleep for a few days now, working on different projects. It's harder to get things to work when you don't have that much in materials to build with, but Richie keeps at it. Even if he can't build, he can at least design. It's not like the days of little distraction give him less time to come up with ideas for new inventions. He just finished drawing the schematics for a solar-powered motorbike.

He takes another sip of his coffee only to realize it's chilled and grimace at the cold. And then another idea hits him and it's awesome but he doesn't have anyone to tell just how awesome it is. So he makes a call, which he completely thinks is privated to Zatanna, but he's running on two hours of sleep in the last three days, so.]

Yo, Zee...what do you think about a solar powered motorbike with--get this. A self-regulating drink holder! It would be amazing right? It would go great with the helmet with the built-in voice-command wifi and satellite radio. I'd just need to design to add-in an sensor for controlling the temperatures between coffee, iced tea, and warm milk.

[His tone is a bit manic, but energetic. He's past the point of fatigue to the kind of crazed euphoria that is a sign of a bad crash to come.]

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	put_it_in_gear 2013-08-31 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Nah, it doesn't take a lot of power to heat something. Anything with a battery gives off heat, so you just need to control how much heat will affect cup. Maybe a thermometer on the bottom of the cup holder. [So maybe he thinks about this too much.] The trick is figure out how to chill it if you want iced tea. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	punching_bag 2013-08-31 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	[ no, no, this is good! ] If you include a fan on the bottom, you can change the direction of air flow to keep the cup warmed or cool, perhaps. It'd be no different then the technology used here in what's called the air conditioning unit. [ just, you know... in miniature. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	put_it_in_gear 2013-08-31 09:09 pm UTC (link)
	There's a bit more to air conditioners than that...but we could include a tiny coil of freon and the fan! And just connect the temperature regulator to the thermometer and a built in remote. Like what they have on coffee machines. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	punching_bag 2013-08-31 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	Freon may be in short supply however, unless you mean to steal some from the housing units. [ which is gutsy, to be honest. Those bots could be listening to them as they speak ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	put_it_in_gear 2013-08-31 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, empty houses are empty houses. They never specified that we couldn't use them. It's more like...having an added on workshop. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	punching_bag 2013-08-31 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	And if the wardens catch on? [ not that he actually cares because this project is worth it ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	put_it_in_gear 2013-08-31 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	They never said we couldn't. I mean, if no one owns it...why can't we use it? If we move our stuff in, technically we're living there, too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	punching_bag 2013-09-01 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	... How soon can we get started on this? If we pool our resources, I'm sure we could come up with a prototype easily within a day or two. [ or four. It depends on the features. ] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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