Person Above: Overcomplicated solution for a simple problem

[SweetNSpicy]

As the title implies, you give a overcomplicated solution for the previous posts' simple problem, and provide us with a new (relatively) simple problem to keep the thread going. Example:

Player 1: My bicycle has a flat tire and I'm too lazy to stick the tire.
Player 2: Okay, first of all, you need to know the exact moment in time your tire got cut. You will then need to study quantum physics, crack the mystery scientists have been trying to crack for centuries, and build a time machine. You can then go back to the past and prevent your tire from running flat in the first place. Problem solved!

I want to order Pizza, but I don't have a phone book

Got it? I'll kick us off. I want to order Pizza, but I don't have a phone book.

 

[Dungeonmaster]

Got it? I'll kick us off. I want to order Pizza, but I don't have a phone book.

The absense of a phone book is a castrophic failure of infrastructure. But worry not, I got you covered. We need to locate a pizzaeria in your area and bypass traditional telecomunication. Nothing easier than that. You first need to attach a GoPro to a high altitude weather baloon and launch this thing. You will then analyse the incoming footage for visual confirmation of a pizzaeria. Look for circular shapes or red and white checkered patterns. Once you located the target, you still need to place your order. Write your order on a piece of paper and wrap it around a standard clay brick. If you don't have one, check the footage from the weather baloon. Now this part is really important. You need to calculate the balistic trajectory to launch that brick right through the front window of the pizzeria. Don't forget to account for wind resistance!
Smash their front window with your order and your pizza will arrive in no time.

edit for new problem (got too excited for my brilliant solution): I have cold feet, but I don't want to put on thicker socks or turn up the heat.

 

[Buttaholic]

for new problem (got too excited for my brilliant solution): I have cold feet, but I don't want to put on thicker socks or turn up the heat.

That’s fairly easy, I got you.
You will need:

• A RaspberryPI
• Arduino nano
• 2 small cylinders made of high friction coefficient (like rough aluminum alloy)
• 2 DC motors
• You will need to assemble this on a 3D printed mount of your choosing.

The 2 cylinders should be mounted on motors (each) tangentially touching.
Motors connected to the arduino, connect the arduino to the raspberryPI via wifi.
Write the code for the following:

• Signal the motors to run at a speed enough for the cylinders to generate heat via friction
• Mobile app and host the server on the raspberryPI
• API to send you request to the arduino to start the motors

Now mount your new device on your feet and whenever you feel cold just heat them up with a press on you phone.

My problem is, I have a habit of only starting to charge my phone before I have to go out by 10 minutes so I always go out with an almost dead battery.

 

[SweetNSpicy]

Got you covered, buddy! You are going to build a bicycle that can generate and store electricity from the dynamo inside a huge battery pack as you ride it. This will the be hardwired to your phone. Your phone will now never die as long as you keep riding your bike, at the small price of always having a bike connected to your phone.

I want to watch a movie, but I have no idea what to watch.

 

[Dungeonmaster]

I want to watch a movie, but I have no idea what to watch.

I feel like this is a really easy one. Not sure why you can't see the solution, you are overthinking this. But I got you.
First you'll go to the electronics store of your choice. I want you to get a really good camera. While you are there, grab some lights as well.
You are gonna call up all the movie stars you know and invite them to an audition. No need to write any script. Let them improvise and see who you like best. Don't be shy of inviting different characters. Why not combining Chuck Norris with Hugh Grant?
Once you selected the movie stars of your choice, you can already start filming. Just set the lightning, hold the camera and let them do all the work.
I promise you, in less than two years, you'll watch your movie!

I want to go on vacation, but I don't want it to cost any money.

 

[buttinup]

Oh, that's the easiest thing ever! I'm surprised you haven't come up with this solution yourself.

First, you are going to want to start streaming on Twitch with the least popular video game and get it super popular, then upload skits on the side about comments you get on stream. While doing this, any income goes directly towards purchasing an airplane and pilot lessons, of which you will get fully licensed to fly. By the time you have the airplane, you can fly yourself anywhere for FREE!

problem: I want to hug more people, but they keep playing video games.

 

[SweetNSpicy]

Had to think on it, but I have a plan for you. Got you covered! So first of all, you need to invest in a bunch of drones and find a guaranteed way to get into their houses unnoticed. Have the drones steal their videogames one by one over a longer timeframe. It's very important that you do not get caught at this stage and that you do it slowly over time. Don't take all their games in one day. This way, they will think the gods are sending them a sign an will start to reflect on the way they spend their free time. We are now at the home stretch. When you feel the time is right, you will start sabotaging their consoles, and/or PC's. Delete the System32 folder, get their Xbox Live profile banned, or just remove the power supply from their PlayStation and put it back like nothing happened. At this point they will break, they will feel like life is cruel and should start crying in depression. This is when you will finally be their shoulder to cry on, as you crawl out from under their bed, and say: "Hi Friend, do you need a hug?" This even has the potential to turn into a sexual experience for you. Problem solved!

I hate the country I live in.

 

[RSTUK]

Oh this one is easy. First of all you will need some supplies, steal an old shopping trolley from any supermarket, take some bricks, buy a large amount of cereal based products (breakfast cereal, bread, biscuits) and products with unprocessed fat (bacon, blocks of lard). Next, from your local fish market or seafood restaurant and get any off cuts they have available.

Next, go to the coast and find a large colony of predatory seabirds (seagulls, guillemots or gannets are all fine). Throw several bricks towards the clifts they are nesting to get them angry. You may get pecked and you will get shar on but don't worry it just adds to the affect. Next uncover the goods in your shopping trolley. The birds will discover them and descend into a violent flapping frenzy over the Pandora's box of wheaty fatty fishy goodness that your trolley offers.

Repeat 3 times.

This colony of seabirds are now the makings of your angry army.

Find another colony of seabirds and repeat with different products

Your army will fight with the new colony and they will all become battle hardened.

Repeat with another 3 colonies.

By now you have an angry, feersome and very smelly army of birds at your disposal - no coat will remain clean, no new haircut will remain fresh, no ice cream will go in stolen, no car will be able to go a week without being washed.

Now is the time to strike!!!

Travel to your nearest city with your army. They will do their job. At every supermarket there will be no bacon, there will be no cereal, there will be no fish - it will all be stolen by your angry army.

Hang around on the town hall steps and shout a lot.

Eventually the leaders of this city will be sick of not having a clean suit or ever eating lunch. Plus the building cleaning budget will be crippling. Negotiate with them where you would like to live. They will sort it for you no problem .

My problem is I've got an itch on that little bit of my back that you can never reach to fully scratch it satisfactorily.

 

[EastonEquinox]

Solution: Autonomous Closed-Loop Cybernetic Dorsal Pruritus Mitigation System (ACCDPMS)

Design and deploy a 7-DOF externally mounted robotic scratching apparatus affixed to a wearable spinal frame, calibrated via 3D photogrammetric back mapping to identify the itch locus as a time-varying target vector.

The system solves the inverse kinematics of the human–robot composite in real time, driving a compliant, silicone-coated micro-textured end effector whose surface roughness is PWM-modulated to maximize itch relief while avoiding epidermal damage.

A sensor-fusion feedback loop combines pressure sensors, skin impedance measurements, and user-reported relief gradients to dynamically adjust scratching amplitude, frequency, and trajectory until the itch signal converges to zero.

Control is issued through a mobile app, voice commands, or gesture recognition, with predefined modes such as Localized Precision, Therapeutic Oscillation, and Existential Relief.
Failsafes include a hardware emergency stop, software watchdogs, and conservative force limits to prevent accidental self-exfoliation.


My problem is that I need to change the D-string on my guitar because it's broken