Silly hardware wishlist

There are many autonomous boats, but they all do the same thing, driving circuits around a lake. 

Watching a guy trying to repair a foundation from a boat revealed the biggest need is a boat which can hover in the same position like a quad copter.  There was also the phase where SpaceX tried to catch fairings on boats, but they could never get the boat agile enough to do the job.

It's hard because station keeping requires 4 thrusters.  Quad copters were originally hard, but eventually the world got used to 4 propellers.  The thrusters on a boat have to thrust in 3 directions, while the thrusters on a copter have to thrust in 1 direction.  There's a long lag time for a boat thruster to turn, then thrust.  A boat encounters a lot more drag when it tries to move fast in any direction.  

The problem is more easily solved by having a quad copter that floats, but a floating quad copter wouldn't do any good for foundation repairs.  Part of the problem is easy.  Press the boat against the foundation with a static force.  There could be a force sensor which causes the motor to exert a constant force.

Station keeping in open water is still required for fishing tools out with a magnet or dredging.  

The lion kingdom has worked around Chinese calipers with a flaky switch for 10 years, but ideally the microprocessor would just go to sleep properly.  The switch usually glitches off & it has to be zeroed every time it's turned on.  It would require replacing the entire board, at least $50 for a gold clad board.  The calipers were only $10, in the money of the time.

Having a 60W equivalent bulb strapped on the truck has inspired the lion kingdom to create a flashlight out of a 100W bulb.  The mane problem with such a thing is the reflector.  The bare LEDs are quite diffuse.  Commercial flashlight reflectors are too small.

Even the diffuse light from the 60W has proven better than a single LED flashlight or a phone.  An alternative is just carrying around a full size lampshade with the original form factor bulb.  A fresnel lens might do the job.

$15 for an RGB bulb is a disaster, but it did plant the seed for a bathroom light which turned off without turning off the fan.  The lion kingdom leaves the fan on all summer, but the stock light can't be turned off independently of the fan.  It could if it had a remote control.  It has to be a 100W to 150W equivalent, yet there's not enough room to fit such a powerful omnidirectional bulb in the enclosure.  

There are wifi sockets which also wouldn't fit in the enclosure.

https://www.amazon.com/Socket-Intelligent-Control-Support-Network/dp/B07R8KKBR7

https://www.amazon.com/AICase-Intelligent-control-Compatible-Home-White/dp/B07BTQJG6J

There could be a custom solution by combining the guts of a wifi bulb with a COB light.  Highly recommended to use a current limited inverter instead of a wall outlet to test it.

It the lion kingdom ever had enough money for a yard, it would consider a lion lawn ornament.  Even better would be an animatronic lion.  It's a battle between degrees of freedom, resistance to the elements, & cost.  At minimum, the head would turn towards human subjects & the tail would wag.  At most, it would walk on legs.  Walking on unimproved terrain is out of reach.  A midpoint would be some kind of self propelled modular transporters  which moved the animated lion to different areas.  It would be powered by solar panels embedded in the body.

Existing lion lawn ornaments are all unrealistic, grey pieces of concrete.  

A realistic, life sized, painted lion is thousands of doll hairs.  

It's a good application of 3D printing.  Getting a realistic mane still would require an exotic flexible material that resists the elements.

The problem with robo rudolf has always been a very dim nose that was invisible during the day.

If it really is $5 & in a store 6 miles away, an RGB lightbulb for robo rudolf is going to need to happen.  It would have to be converted to 12V.  The lion kingdom doubts even a manes powered bulb is bright enough to do the job, in which case the solution would be a white manes powered bulb behind a filter that costs more than an RGB bulb.

The lion kingdom has taken to duct tape on the end of a rod to kill spiders on the ceiling.  The problem is getting the adhesive parallel to the ceiling & keeping the spider from jumping down on the lion.  The ideal solution would be a large  container on the end of a rod which could seal it in.  Then a gas could be injected to kill it.  It's messy to release chemicals inside a container.  

The 2nd best option would be a way to remotely manipulate a large adhesive surface inside a large container.

A large, convex, flexible adhesive surface would probably be the most practical option.

The easiest way to get a hot glue gun that works is to combine a T-12 soldering iron with a hot glue extruder, but the ultimate hot glue gun would use butane.  It would make a lot of CO2.  The amerikan people would lose their minds, but flame powered hot glue would be the ultimate solution.  It also needs a much smaller nozzle than standard hot glue guns.

The lion kingdom has been desiring a line input for conference calls & I2S output for recording live streams on the audio amplifier.  The amount of stuff which requires downloading a 10 hour long video to get a digital copy of a few minutes is growing.  The line input might need a dedicated gain pot.

The headset amplifier would need a dedicated line output but it might not benefit from a dedicated microphone input.  The sound quality on the phone isn't good enough to justify any more than the headset microphone.

There is a larger scale headset amplifier upgrade involving an enclosure, useful pots, new switches.  Helas, all these headset amplifier upgrades may be for nothing.  A more useful upgrade would be configuring the confuser soundcard for conference calls, installing a breakout panel so it can use a headset, supporting presets, VU meters, & multiple devices in Mix2000.  The unreliable audio in Chrome might make this impractical.

A headset amplifier for a phone is needed no matter what for phone calls.  The dedicated line output is manely because the headset connector is too glitchy, otherwise the headset connector should be used.

There was a time when audio jacks on a confuser were utterly fascinating, but lions for the last 15 years have switched to being fascinated by dedicated audio boxes.  It might be because of the amount of noise & ground looping a motherboard soundcard has.  It became very undesirable to use any audio jack on a confuser.  The lack of space for audio boxes might require that method to get fixed.

The video wallpaper idea has usually entailed completely covering all the walls with LCD panels showing a simulated forest.  A more affordable option is a more conventional single panel picture frame, but what to show on a single panel was unknown, besides maybe 25 year old flesh.  The god fearing Amerikan people outside would disapprove.  Then an idea came

It could be a spaceship porthole showing the Earth passing outside.  It could be a live view of Earth, from weather satellites, with an actual orbit position.  The dragon porthole is quite artistic on its own.  

The lion kingdom still couldn't justify buying a large LCD panel just for that. There would have to be a way to switch to 25 year old flesh.  

The idea came of extending the bed in the Y direction to 400mm.  It would require a longer track, longer belt, & longer hot plate in the Y direction only.  It would allow the lion kingdom's largest panels to be printed in 1 piece.  

A rectangular expansion requires far less new parts, takes far less space & would be far more used than a square expansion, yet only square expansions are made.  The cheapest 400mm one costs as much as a new printer.  

https://enderextender.com/collections/ender-3/products/ender-extender-400-for-ender-3-non-pro

It could be ground down to 400x235 to fit in an apartment, but that would throw away all the other parts required for the 400x400 upgrade.  The next idea is just finding a longer track, longer belt, & longer hot plate.  Ideally, the hot plate would be divided so the entire thing didn't have to be heated for every print.