Hello, now then, I've just recently got one of those Smart Hub homey things, where you sit on
your couch and you can shout stuff like 'turn on the lights'! Very nice! But it ain't very exciting
is it? I've had some ideas, yes! We need to make some extra devices for this thing
to control. So tackling today... getting outta bed! Now I do have an ejector bed, so you know,
I could get it to control that! But, I'm thinking more for my son, I can't put him
in the injector bed, it'll splat him against the wall. So gonna make a little shaky system,
so I can shout 'Oi, get the son out of bed' and this bed goes whoa!
Right better go measure his bed, get crackin! Oh, this is a fantastic idea Colin!
Made a bit of a mess of that bit.
keep it tidy!
Right so this boards going to sit in where the mattress goes in, and then I've got this
angled gearbox thingy. I'm gonna fix that to the base, there'll be a drill or
a motor or something turning that. Shaft goes in the top, like so, and then there's gonna be like
an offset cam, so when the motor spins up the top of the bed will go like this...
move around. And depending on how fast, depends on what mood I'm in!
Right that's got my little gear box mounted. Put a cordless drill on it for the time being,
but I think it's gonna want a mains-powered one, because cordless ones don't spin quite as fast.
Next job, the bit of board that the mattress sits on needs mounting,
and that needs to be able to move freely, so we need a bearing. Got one of these little
things look. These little roller bearings. Sit that on there. I'm sat on the floor in
here cuz it's quite hard to get me and all this in shot with me sitting up,
so I'm kind of half laying down. We don't need to know that, don't need to know it!
I've had a bit of a change of heart. I was looking at the bits of wood in the woodshop,
and I'm like they're all twisted. We've
got to screw them together, I don't like it. So I've gone for aluminium.
Right I shall weld them together!
Could do with a bigger shed really, but I'm not gonna get one, I refuse!
Now there's probably some welders out there,
looking at all the marks and stuff around it going, 'you got the
wrong gas, got the wrong filler rod' `don't care!
It'll stick it together, it's only for a shaking bed,
it's not like it's holding a spaceship together!
Spaceship! Spaceship!
I like it! It was a good decision Furze, a good decision.
Lay on there, I just want to see if it shake
ok! Brilliant, right, next job, fix this top board to this spinney motor.
get the feeling this is not very sharp!
This is a riveting bit of footage Colin. This is excitement at it's peak.
Oh, I think there's 10,000 subs coming your way.
I mean look... oh, oh, oh... ahhhh! oh yeah! Look at that!
Right that works well, but I don't want to use a cordless drill,
I want to use a mains one, and no expense has been spared!
£17.99! Let's chuck this in there. Mains powered,
here we go! Not sure the drill is gonna cope with this. It's er... it's smoking away!
Ok this is a plan, I have doubled the drill budget from £17.99 to £40.
Still rubbish ones, but there you are! Right swap this over,
hopefully because this one's a thousand watt,
that was only 500. This one should cope better with the struggle, which it clearly
is, what turning this bed is a power thing job to do.
So that's what we're gonna do. Hopefully it won't set fire to the bed!
Mechanically, that is done, that is brilliant! Next up, electronics,
relays, a little circuit board which will talk to the smart home thingy,
and then give it a paint job and then it's ready to program and then stick
it on my son's bed for real! see what he thinks of it. Right electrics, paint
Ay! It's all finished. Electronic's all in. I've even put a little LED
strip light round the outside.
Now next job is software. When it comes to programming Arduino and whatnot,
I have reached some dizzying heights! But this is a little more complex than that,
so I've got the master of electronics involved, we've got Mr. James Bruton! Hello!
Now he's like the software computing genius. If you want to go check out his channel,
see what I'm on about, there's links in the description, and at the end. So I need to get
this to talk to the smart Home thing. I've tried welding it, it doesn't work. This is the person
to sort that out! Right let's get on with it. 2 relays; one for the LEDs, one for the drill.
He done it! He's done it! You shout at it and it does it!
Turn on the wakeup machine! (ok) We're in the
future! Let's give it a test! Turn on the bed shaker! (OK)
Yeah You could get this in a hotel!
Yes, that work didn't it! Voice-activated bed shaking, waking up system!
Now if you want to say that James did the code and connected it all up, he's done a little
video up here! Before I test this properly on my son, I want to make something else,
something a little bit more extreme! Now when that's available & uploaded they'll be in the
top box. But until then we've got two other wonderful options for you to select from!
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