Manual Wheelchair - Tumblr Posts
Fuck it! Did it anyway!
Also please suggest names I'm terrible at them
Okay, so he was built to be a pretty high end personal robot, basically like a robot butler, but this specific one was programmed specifically for specialising in looking after children and animals
But, he wasn't ever bought, he was stuck in a warehouse, and eventually human extinction happened, the warehouse collapsed and this was the moment that finally woke him up
he's litterally ancient at this point, a brand new machine that's decayed before it was ever powered on, and immediately he's got a problem, he can't move. the motors in his wheels are completely dead, he attempts to drag himself along the floor before he's able to stand again using a wall for support.
Immediately falls straight to the floor
So he attaches 2 extra wheels for support, small ones, but enough to keep him upright
With a bit of trial and error he is able to propel himself by manually turning his wheels
ROBOTS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS. ROBOTS THAT NEED TO STAY HOOKED INTO THE GRID OR RLSE THEY SHUT DOWN IN A FEW MINUTES. ROBOTS WHO CAN'T TRAVEL BECAUSE THEYRE HOOKED INTO A BANK OF BATTERIES
ROBOTS WHO OPERATE WAY ABOVE HUMAN PROCESSING AND COGNITION SO THEY INTERRUPT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS BEFORE YOUVE ASKED THEM
DO YOU HEAR ME CA. YOU HEAR ME....
Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.
It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.
I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.