Just put a generator on each wheel.  That way, when people
push them the 2.7 miles back to their home, the batteries
should have a reasonably sufficient charge.


D

* On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:54:23AM -0700, kallen3@icircus.net wrote:
> Bashas tried those carts for a while. Within the year they had removed all
> of them. I guess it got too much when not only did you have to have
> someone round them up but plug them in. Which means that you needed to
> keep something like 25% to 30% more than normal on hand. Otherwise all you
> have is a cart with a box which did nothing due to dead batteries 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > I wonder how much that would cost per cart.  The reason I say that is, what
> > about all the carts that are left in the parking lot, or better yet, hit by
> > cars or "walk away" completely?  I would think that it would be tough to
> > create electronics that could take 116 degrees in Phoenix and -40 degrees in
> > Minnesota, or a couple of bumps in the parking lot.  Maybe the answer would
> > be that you are not allowed to take the cart into the parking lot at all,
> > but how else am I going to get all that "stuff" that I just bought out to my
> > car?  Maybe we go back to the time where someone actually walked out the the
> > car with you and helped you load your car.  Wouldn't that be nice!
> > 
> > It's a great idea, and I love the fact that they want to use Linux, but it
> > might be hard sell.
> > 
> > Mark Holbert
> > mark@linuxsoftware.org
> > 
> > --------------
> > >moin, moin,
> > >
> > >There's a project to convert m$ wince app to Linux. It is financed by an
> > unnamed retail company of some sort and they needed coders to make it
> > happen.
> > >
> > >They want to install small portable computers on shopping carts. Each
> > computer will show position of the cart in the shop, keep calculating the
> > bills and run ads. It >is currently working with wince, but they'd prefer
> > Linux.
> > >
> > >All computers will have wireless connection to the main server which has
> > the data base and stores information about ads, etc.
> > >
> > >Rough estimate - 500 man-hours of work.
> > >
> > >For further info contact Sergey Nikitin, Sergey@m-and-s.com.
> > >
> > >PS A couple of years ago Sergey ported the JDK to Linux by himself and the
> > Blackdown Project needed to catch up to his work :).
> > >
> > >ciao,
> > >
> > >der.hans
> > >--
> > >#  der.hans@LuftHans.com   home.pages.de/~lufthans/   www.Opnix.com
> > >#  Science is magic explained. - der.hans
> > 
> > 
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