today my chair broke

Seems like I have to build a captain Kirk chair sooner or later. Although you know you bought it cheap, it's always disturbing to know that a chair just broke under your weight. I'm thinking of a chair using rollers you'd see on a shopping cart, a rotating base using skateboard wheels and a total comfy seat and arms that have control knobs that do stuff.

- control lights and power switches

- control volume

- control a cooling/heating element

- throw in massage heads (or not) - could be joined with a calendar/alarm

- add a gas sensor and tweet high measurements (http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Twittering-Office-Chair/)

- measure temperatures and weight (DDR capacitive sensors) to get profiles

- a timer/counter telling you how long you are sitting

- gyro to detect if you have to pee

- moisture sensors to tell that you don't have to anymore

- dynamo to charge the chair by spinning

- round counter to get top speed from chair spinning

- integrate positioning system to light different areas on one button touch

- drop out of chair mechanics

Here's a sketch I made 31 months ago (that's what instagram says, anyway). I guess floating won't be an option for now.

What would you want/expect from a perfect chair? Any other good examples for augmented chairs?

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Stefan-Xp wrote 08/03/2016 at 19:06

Greetings Captain, whats up with your Chair? ;)

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TAIBHSE DESIGNS wrote 05/14/2015 at 16:55

just thought I'd link you this, Adam Savage made his own captains chair if your interested in designing your own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaVi06DaTk0

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davedarko wrote 05/14/2015 at 20:50

I've just seen it and was about to post it, thanks! :)

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davedarko wrote 05/01/2015 at 21:34

i had to google a Seinfeld joke. Not sure how I should feel about it.

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Ben Wade wrote 04/30/2015 at 20:25

A unit to massage your bum so you legs don't go to sleep!

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davedarko wrote 04/30/2015 at 20:41

That only happens on one place, where I also get red knees :D

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Kenji Larsen wrote 04/30/2015 at 11:14

Don't give up on hovering. Maybe it's just a compromise on hovering distance for now. But as far as a chair is concerned, since it will likely be on a flat floor, any distance with enough clearance to take up normal weight shift loads without touching down ought to be equivalent... so put that chair on this: https://hackaday.io/project/3222-hoverbot

If you lay down enough metal on your floor, you can just shift and glide to the kitchen for more snacks (after using your chair-arm UI to defeat station-keeping, of course). Or send the auxiliary hovering chair drone module to fetch them for you.

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davedarko wrote 04/30/2015 at 20:45

I remember seeing a movie where there was a magnetic levitating bed in it - those big neodymium magnets are just too powerful for my taste.. but it was my first thought how I could realize it.

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Adam Fabio wrote 04/29/2015 at 04:36

UI interface idea - an old android cell phone capacitive touch screen. I seem to recall a panel which would open up to reveal switches on the arm of a chair, but I'm not sure if I'm thinking of TOS trek, or TNG. Either way - you could have a panel which would slide back to reveal the phone's touchscreen. LCARS interface for that extra final touch :)

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davedarko wrote 04/29/2015 at 09:23

I had a bicycle phone mount on one arm of my chair once, felt awesome :)

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Kenji Larsen wrote 04/29/2015 at 01:59

how about a safety disable switch?

Also, there is always the Captain Pike chair. One beep for yes, two beeps for yes, yes.

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davedarko wrote 04/29/2015 at 09:25

A safety disable switch would come in handy in this situation ;)

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Stefan-Xp wrote 04/28/2015 at 22:35

Just for Inspiration ;)

Best regards, good night!

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davedarko wrote 04/29/2015 at 09:27

I always wanted something with an SGA touch :) The cup holder and tablet mount seems like a good idea, too.

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frankstripod wrote 04/28/2015 at 19:20

Captain Kirk chair? Perfect idea! The gyro is very funny. I would use the gas sensor to start a vacuum attached through the seat, or maybe a headphone jack.

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davedarko wrote 04/28/2015 at 19:25

Or it could counter act with those electric room sprays :D interesting trigger!

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