CaddyTrek Golf Cart

[Camp Peavy]

Makes me want to take up golf. :-) $1600 and apparently shipping. One of LAPTOP magazine's 29 hottest summer gadgets... like robot vacuum cleaners I believe these devices have attained continued presence. That is we'll never go back to a time when there wasn't a robot caddy. Eventually they'll wander how they got along without it <Mwa!>.

 

FTR: CaddyTrek

http://www.caddytrek.com/

 

Enjoy,

Camp

 

[Butokim]

Probably 35 years ago a friend of mine got a hold of a half-dozen carts similar to this.  They followed a radio beacon emitted by a device about the size of a garage door opener that the golfer carried in his pocket.  The problem with them was that they followed a straight line.  If the golfer walked around a pond to hit the ball then pushed the button to have his club bag come to him it would go straight through the pond (substitute "sand trap", "other golfer", "other carts", "automobiles", etc. )  The club gave them away.  We had a lot of fun with them.

 

I hope that there are a lot more intelligence built into this new one.

 

James M. Geidl, K6JMG
D.B. Cooper, you have  a message.
 

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From: hbrob...@googlegroups.com [mailto:hbrob...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Camp Peavy
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 11:38 PM
To: hbrob...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [HBRobotics] CaddyTrek Golf Cart

[Randy M. Dumse]

Camp Peavy said: Sunday, July 08, 2012 1:38 AM
> FTR: CaddyTrek
> http://www.caddytrek.com/

Yeah! When you're out getting exercise, what's the point in
working at it? :^o

Randy

[Camp Peavy]

> I hope that there are a lot more intelligence built into this new one.

 

Let's hope so. :-)

 

I think about this stuff all the time... shopping carts, luggage, toolboxes... on the one hand you might need to pick it up now-and-then to help it over an obstacle; a curb for example or put it into the car or on a desk, bench, bed, etc. In the case of shopping carts sometimes I want to push it around, sometimes I wouldn't want it to follow me (going back to look for something) and of course once you've unloaded your groceries it should return to the storage area automatically.

 

- Camp

 

From: Butokim <but...@gmail.com>
To: hbrob...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2012 10:13 AM
Subject: RE: [HBRobotics] CaddyTrek Golf Cart

Probably 35 years ago a friend of mine got a hold of a half-dozen carts similar to this.  They followed a radio beacon emitted by a device about the size of a garage door opener that the golfer carried in his pocket.  The problem with them was that they followed a straight line.  If the golfer walked around a pond to hit the ball then pushed the button to have his club bag come to him it would go straight through the pond (substitute "sand trap", "other golfer", "other carts", "automobiles", etc. )  The club gave them away.  We had a lot of fun with them.

 

I hope that there are a lot more intelligence built into this new one.

 

James M. Geidl, K6JMG
D.B. Cooper, you have  a message.
 

From: hbrob...@googlegroups.com [mailto:hbrob...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Camp Peavy
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 11:38 PM
To: hbrob...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [HBRobotics] CaddyTrek Golf Cart

Makes me want to take up golf. :-) $1600 and apparently shipping. One of LAPTOP magazine's 29 hottest summer gadgets... like robot vacuum cleaners I believe these devices have attained continued presence. That is we'll never go back to a time when there wasn't a robot caddy. Eventually they'll wander how they got along without it <Mwa!>.

 

FTR: CaddyTrek

http://www.caddytrek.com/

 

Enjoy,

Camp

 

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[Camp Peavy]

> Yeah! When you're out getting exercise, what's the point in working at it? :^o

 

Well, since this probably would displace a golf cart it is moving in the right direction. ;-)

 

- Camp