Star Trek-Style Door Swooshes when It Opens - Neatorama

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Marc, an engineer who lives in Miami, built a pneumatic sliding door for his home. It was inspired by the sliding doors on Star Trek: The Next Generation. An air compressor engages two 16-inch pistons to slide the door along a track. At the link, you can view detailed photos showing how Marc built it.

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mmm... i have the same at my store and they're transparent....

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Really neat, but for 40 dollars in parts he could have built in a proximity sensor so it really worked like the Star Trek doors.

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Some dwellings ago I had a the first type swooshing Star-Trek door from when they had to make the shows on shoestring-budget- Back then the swooshing door needed 2 stagehands that did the "automatic" sliding and a 3rd that did the accompanying pshhhh-sound. Mine worked just like that AND it rattled with the sound of badly fitted stained glass...

;-)

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Christophe: And they're quieter. Having noisy doors in the future seems a step backwards.

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Yup, needs either a motion sensor or a supermarket-style pad on the floor to activate it on your approach.

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And it should say, "Glad to be of service..."

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Yeah, it's definitely swooshy.

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