(Ok, its been a while since i posted anything and after watching the latest Ben Heck show device, which was a little disappointing, i thought about something i designed a long time ago)
Getting dressed, is for some people a real hassle, (a person i care for goes through so much stress over it that it often results in an asthma attack), so i thought about ways you could make it easier for people to get dressed. While some people are thinking complex robots (like from iron man) to assemble their clothes around them i have a simpler idea, the basics coming from a few drill motors and the special placement of linkages, so here we go:
1) The first thing i do in my schedule is putting my pants on (trousers), this one was quite easy for me becuase your just pulling your pants up over your legs, so i thought a pully attached to the top of the trousers with a sensor at the bottom to detect when both feet are in the pant legs then a wieght or a motor would pull on the pully pulling your pants up (i have elastic on most of my pants so they don't drop down).
2) The next on the agenda would be a tshirt or a shirt which i thought could be attached to a special frame which held the shirt in the rolled up position, when your pants has been pulled up this frame would drop down from behind allowing you to just pass your arms through and with a bit of a tug the frame would release and the shirt would succom to the natural forces of gravity and drop down.
3) Socks, socks were tricky but after playing around with some kinex i thought of a mount you could place your foot in and then a motor would simply pull the sock up around your foot similar to the pants.
4) Finally shoes or slippers if your walking around the house, i had the most trouble with this, the only way i could make this work with shoes was to take the laces out and use magnets to hold the shoe together then much like the socks you could slip into them (the same goes for the slippers) and press your foot down which would make the magnets allign locking the shoe.
That's all i've got for now, i'm sure people on here can come up with new problems and solutions for this, but this is a project that i could never build myself but i'm sure someone better than me can.
P.S.
While i was building the sock puller i noticed that it would have to be combined with the shoe machine as well, so i thought, why not have the sock in the shoe to begin with?