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Re: Chocolate Lego Printer...
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Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:22:34 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
> > In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote:
> > > OK,
> > >
> > > who's the wise guy?
> > >
> > > http://boingboing.net/images/foo/Desktop-Pages/Image8.html
> > >
> > > Chris.
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> > > Janey was this you??? Iain?? I like chocolate, I like lego.... what could be
> > > better then mixing the two??
> >
> > I was thinking of building some sort of remotely controlled robot like DaveK's
> > yesterday. The best I could think of was a remote camera at the University that
> > you could pan and tilt or a robot plotter you could draw stuff with on scrap
> > pieces of paper (ie, some sort of robot art) and could watch on a digital
> > camera.
> >
> > But this, this is something other, as Bruce Cockburn would say.
> >
> > Calum
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> I love it.
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> Mmmmmmmmmmmm.... Chocolate....
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> Gggahghghhghghhghhhhhhh...
> (Homer Simpson drool...)
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> So I'm thinking I'd like to free up 16 square feet of real estate in my house by
> taking the robocam down. However, I don't have an idea for a replacement.
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> I was thinking about some sort of CAD setup, so people could draw on paper, much
> like that remote artist paint thing I saw years ago.
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> The only issue is that I'm competent enuf to set up buttons for movement--press
> button 'x' and pen moves in 'x' direction for a set amount of time...
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> However, I'd like to set up a java applet or something that would give the user
> a way to use the movement of the mouse cursor to move the pen--that way it'd be
> more fluid...
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> But that's beyond me at this time.
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> Dave K
So, how does this thing work? Some of you might recall I toted around some LEGO
bricks made with various rapid prototyping machines at BrickFest (you can see a
photo here: http://www.ldraw.org/article/319). I'll have the opportunity to make
more RP LEGO parts in the future as well. This is a neat setup though that some
of my contacts at RP companies might enjoy seeing :-)
-Tim
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| (...) Hey Tim, I came to this story through (URL) core77.com>, a neat ID e-zine. As far as I can tell (I hate reading a geeky BLOG to figure out someone's project!) it "prints" a little dot of chocolate by moving a plate under a "print head" that (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| (...) I love it. Mmmm...mmm.... Chocolate.... Gggahghghhghghhghhhhhhh... (Homer Simpson drool...) So I'm thinking I'd like to free up 16 square feet of real estate in my house by taking the robocam down. However, I don't have an idea for a (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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