{"id":511,"date":"2017-11-29T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/?p=511"},"modified":"2017-11-29T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T23:55:12","slug":"necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/511\/","title":{"rendered":"Necessity is the Mother of Invention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not all solutions involve electronics or coding. I recently had rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder and it’s more comfortable and better to sleep in a recliner for awhile after the surgery.\u00a0 Unfortunately, like the vast majority of recliners, ours has its controls on the right side, posing a problem for someone in a sling.<\/p>\n

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Control buttons on my power recliner<\/p><\/div>\n

So I put some PVC pipe together before the surgery:<\/p>\n

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PVC pipe “hook” to reach over with my left hand and work the control buttons<\/p><\/div>\n

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Close-up of the tip, where I glued on a piece of rubber to serve as a “finger.”<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s a bit like lockpicking, you have to go totally by feel. While a bit awkward, it works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not all solutions involve electronics or coding. I recently had rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder and it’s more comfortable and better to sleep in a recliner for awhile after the surgery.\u00a0 Unfortunately, like the vast majority of recliners, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgurrin.info\/robots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}