{"id":11053,"date":"2010-03-07T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/professor-x-chair-dispenses-vodka-announces-presence-with-arduino-sounds-and-smoke-wheelchairs\/"},"modified":"2010-03-07T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T19:30:00","slug":"professor-x-chair-dispenses-vodka-announces-presence-with-arduino-sounds-and-smoke-wheelchairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/professor-x-chair-dispenses-vodka-announces-presence-with-arduino-sounds-and-smoke-wheelchairs.php","title":{"rendered":"Professor X Chair Dispenses Vodka, Announces Presence with Arduino Sounds and Smoke [Wheelchairs]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This fully-functional wheelchair comes complete with, well, everything I could possibly think of that's necessary for something to be called a Steampunk Professor X chair. Vodka cranberry dispenser? Yes. Booming Arduino\/Adafruit sound effects? Sure! Working smokestack? Why, yes!<\/p>

Better still, there's video of the creator tooling around a model railroad museum, confusing and fascinating bystanders with his booze-dealing contraption of wonder. And yes, builder Daniel Valdez looks like Professor X:<\/p>

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Says Valdez on some of the specifics:<\/p>

What you get when you mix an 1875 Eastlake Victorian platform rocking chair with a Permobil C300 Power wheelchair and a few trips to an antique store. Toss in screaming digital amped sound system, an event triggered sound processor, oh and a portable smoke machine!<\/p><\/blockquote>

Indeed. As for my thoughts on the chair, I'm just half-glad something called \"steampunk\" actually does...something, for once. [Flickr<\/a> via Adafruit<\/a> - Thanks, Philip<\/em>]<\/p>

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