that was pretty neat. I could not help but wonder if you made this thing into a lifelike dog companion,
it would sell just for the doggy part, as an expensive Hammacher Schlemmer toy, not a tool.
However, back to grapes...
Remember, fill it up with grapes for a promo shot! Look, the bounty follows you home...
Just about every major company in my area is looking for employees, and the common lament is you can't get good help.
Part of that now is due to drug testing, but the reality is we are at low unemployment. So if folks can't get enough good help, and want
reliable help anyway...now might be a good time to market this as a long term investment in controlling staff costs and improving reliability.
I see help wanted signs out at the end of your marketing lane, with the owner/grower looking interested at this new idea...
I also see this device in a greenhouse setting loaded with cut lettuce heading down the aisle.
If this doesn't have a remote, perhaps some audible software for at least a stop command if the radar glitches and doesn't
fail in the stop mode as it's supposed to. And it can't wake up in the middle of the night and go for
a ride in the barnyard.
could there be a level switch where it will stop operation if the angle exceeds X?
I made a home made water wagon with a 55 gallon drum like MossRoad talked about and when it's full, even on a good quality JD cart,
you can feel the whole thing wanting to lean if I get close to a ditch. Otherwise I live on very flat land and the water wagon works great.
And a water wagon which followed you as you watered things not under irrigation might be a neat application.
There's always the issue of how much do you have to overdesign something to make up for improper/unsafe operation. And if it does get stuck, or turn over, or
suffer some upset, being all electric, and likely agm or lithium batteries, it should be exceptionally durable.
You can put a lot of safety nannies on a cart like this, a weight sensor under the bottom that stops operation if payload weight exceeds X.