{"id":401383,"date":"2010-03-07T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5487619"},"modified":"2010-03-07T14:30:00","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:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/401383","title":{"rendered":"Professor X Chair Dispenses Vodka, Announces Presence with Arduino Sounds and Smoke [Wheelchairs]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/4388650889_8f7ff0514f_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/500x_4388650889_8f7ff0514f_b.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\"  title=\"Professor X Chair Dispenses Vodka, Announces Presence with Arduino Sounds and Smoke\"\/><\/a>This fully-functional wheelchair comes complete with, well, everything I could possibly think of that&#8217;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>\n<p>Better still, there&#8217;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>\n<p><!-- videoId: wRt8YRUYahE --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/wRt8YRUYahE&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/340x_wrt8yruyahe.jpg\" class=\"left image340\" width=\"340\"  style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Professor X Chair Dispenses Vodka, Announces Presence with Arduino Sounds and Smoke\"\/><!-- \/videoId: wRt8YRUYahE --><\/p>\n<p>Says Valdez on some of the specifics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<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>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/500x_4389419582_12c5171789.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\"  title=\"Professor X Chair Dispenses Vodka, Announces Presence with Arduino Sounds and Smoke\"\/>Indeed. As for my thoughts on the chair, I&#8217;m just half-glad something called &#8220;steampunk&#8221; actually does&#8230;something, for once. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smeeon\/sets\/72157623016778829\/\">Flickr<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/steampunk-professor-xavier-wheelchair-project-powered-with-an-adafruit-waveshield\/\">Adafruit<\/a> &#8211; <em>Thanks, Philip<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=90f92cb67802ca753e553c38c4af016e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=90f92cb67802ca753e553c38c4af016e&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=5izHnMrWZME:bJ-evPACQNI:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=5izHnMrWZME:bJ-evPACQNI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=5izHnMrWZME:bJ-evPACQNI:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=5izHnMrWZME:bJ-evPACQNI:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=5izHnMrWZME:bJ-evPACQNI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=5izHnMrWZME:bJ-evPACQNI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/5izHnMrWZME\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fully-functional wheelchair comes complete with, well, everything I could possibly think of that&#8217;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! Better still, there&#8217;s video of the creator tooling around a model railroad museum, confusing and fascinating bystanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}