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Sept 9, 2010: Egg Bot
Three guys have put together this Egg-Bot kit, which decorates damn near anything, spherical or ovoid and smaller than a grapefruit, with a sharp marker. You can have the bestest Christmas balls, or Easter eggs, in town.
| The Eggbot software allows you to control the 'bot from within Inkscape-- a superb freeware illustration program -- on Mac, Windows, or Linux computers. You can draw an image directly, trace a photograph, or import designs from other programs. You can also control the Eggbot directly from many other programs that have the ability to send serial commands over a USB port. |
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toranokaze Thursday Sep 9 01:42 AM
In my day all you got to color eggs was a box of crayons
SPUCK Thursday Sep 9 06:01 AM
Is this where we find out Sharpies are poisonous?
Trilby Thursday Sep 9 06:47 AM
I think the bestest Christmas balls are Schweddy's delicious balls!
classicman Thursday Sep 9 08:56 AM
Looks pretty neat, but for $200 - dayum.
ZenGum Thursday Sep 9 09:08 AM
I wouldn't shell out that much.
classicman Thursday Sep 9 09:26 AM
yolk yolk yolk
xoxoxoBruce Thursday Sep 9 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by classicman
Looks pretty neat, but for $200 - dayum.
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Sheldonrs Thursday Sep 9 09:31 AM
Hmmm... I wonder...
classicman Thursday Sep 9 10:01 AM
I know xob - you sold me the damn thing with your cute pics and description... then I saw the price and realized it was WAY out of my budget.
monster Thursday Sep 9 12:24 PM
Cheaper than going to a tattoo parlor to get your balls inked.
Pete Zicato Thursday Sep 9 02:30 PM
If you like that sort of thing, you might like this as well. An inexpensive (comparatively) 3d printer.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/06...ble-perso.html
xoxoxoBruce Thursday Sep 9 03:51 PM
That won't cover what you have, and it plain, no designs, which it the point.
Cloud Thursday Sep 9 04:15 PM
I'm constantly amazed at the enormous amount of ingenuity and effort people put into useless shit. Why can't this inventiveness and energy be channeled into stopping global warming or something?
Sheldonrs Thursday Sep 9 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Cloud
I'm constantly amazed at the enormous amount of ingenuity and effort people put into useless shit. Why can't this inventiveness and energy be channeled into stopping global warming or something?
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monster Thursday Sep 9 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Cloud
I'm constantly amazed at the enormous amount of ingenuity and effort people put into useless shit. Why can't this inventiveness and energy be channeled into stopping global warming or something?
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....but wait a minute..... as someone so actively in favor of ink and piercing -both "useless" adornments, isn't it a little rich to criticise others for seeking new ways to decorate their environment?
Cloud Thursday Sep 9 10:53 PM
perhaps, although I don't really concede the analogy. I'm certainly in favor of decorative arts and more beauty in the world. I was more thinking of the engineering and software that went into this thing, which is far more complex than the application of needles to flesh.
and I fully acknowledge that people, including me, spend vast amounts of time and energy on useless stuff. I'm still amazed, though.
lupin..the..3rd Friday Sep 10 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Cloud
I'm constantly amazed at the enormous amount of ingenuity and effort people put into useless shit. Why can't this inventiveness and energy be channeled into stopping global warming or something?
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B. This device is a machine to allow a person to create art, using an egg and colored pens, instead of a canvas and paint brushes. So all art is useless then??
Spexxvet Friday Sep 10 10:05 AM
It's a 3-D spirograph! Want.
It's eggzactly what I was looking for.
monster Friday Sep 10 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Cloud
perhaps, although I don't really concede the analogy. I'm certainly in favor of decorative arts and more beauty in the world. I was more thinking of the engineering and software that went into this thing, which is far more complex than the application of needles to flesh.
and I fully acknowledge that people, including me, spend vast amounts of time and energy on useless stuff. I'm still amazed, though. |
xoxoxoBruce Friday Sep 10 01:42 PM
Each axis is controlled by a stepper motor. Stepping and testicles, should not be used in the same sentence. 
monster Friday Sep 10 05:09 PM
I think any sentence with stepping and testicles would have quite a wring to it....
kerosene Monday Sep 13 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by monster
I still think it has potential for testicular tattoos......
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