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hektor, the creation of Jurg Lehni and Uli Franke, is a robot armed with a spray can that can reproduce any design (from Illustrator) on the wall.
Is there winxp x64 driver for it?
By SilverSkull 1144103574 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveWhat a talented robot!!
By CuteKitten 1144101440 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveLeft me speechless when it was drawing the house. What a precise accuracy!
By bremex 1151773390 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethat's amazing. At first it looked like it wasn't gonna be that precise but when it drew the house and the circle at the end... awesome. The people who invented this are very creative.
By razrfane 1144096653 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removei'd love to hang it off a major building...
By graffkid 1167263854 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveCant wait to get one of those to decorate my house walls and my clubs walls a well!!
Cheers to the inventor!
holy macaroni!!!!!!!! :O
By x-metacafe-x 1151614249 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveRe-designed software for a plotter to make a spray can go up and down - BIG DEAL. They could have used stiching software that actually uses directions and starts and stops. If the wires were on a tight sqaure frame and the can didn't just dangle it could have gone faster than a couple of days.
By deanponderz 1151174453 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveSeems I found a reason why there is so much strings around the Empire State Building... About time they got some modern colors!
By berzerk47 1150214921 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveBut its kind of lame... NO COLORS? COME ON! You have to get colors! You know, no colors means white trees and white houses and white sky! Where the hell is the logic? He He He!
By berzerk47 1150214826 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveREALLY GOOD ROBOT
By gsd 1149417583 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI'm sure you've all seen a plotter before... I don't think this is a great leap in technology, though I do like the potential mobility this thing has.
By robertii 1147584748 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removei love it!!!
By Ntek 1146558573 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeit wud be exactly the same as ur home printer
By commie pinko wannabe 1146428147 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeain't that great, just like a printer on your pc.... I mean you already have to have the image!!! so long sukrz
By watcher123 1146418342 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removesimply unbelievable..
By muratti 1145525967 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThat's such the day to day technology we use on printers tho aplied on a higher scale, pretty creative tho. ^^
By Tuturo 1145085384 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveWe humans have officially become useless. If they invent a robot that can make sushi I'm killing myself...
Now seriously, guys, all this is is a vertical plotter, it's not AMAZING it's just pretty cool.
can you imagine the concequences?
By this is my nickname 1144738139 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethat one very cool robot
By la-z boy 1144443277 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removei'm telling you now that that robot is good and i wanna have one!
By sxyman 1144438748 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis is basically nothing more than a variation of a plotter printer scaled and configured to be used against a wall. The same mechanics have been used in printers for years.
By Gibbeon 1144352832 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removehow much?
By maleficum 1144346935 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeit's realy amazing. Can anybody tell me how it work?
By Pandya 1144329728 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove.
By Silver Palm Trees 1144327299 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removejust like a CNC machine
we have one in the shop, it works really well
clever those chinese. needs refining.
By peterl1950 1144172027 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThe new hp graffiti jet. Gives the word "wallpaper" a whole new meaning!
By TheS4ndm4n 1144171447 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removebut it cant quite replace a person.
It bled quite a bit and there was a lot of running.
as to how it did it. illustrator uses vectors so what it probaby does is just read the vectors in the file and paint each one of those as opposed to a printer that works from top to bottom. using vectors you get smoother lines and something more like what a perons would produce.
in the end, props on the design, but it still needs a bit more refinement to hold off that running.
First the skilled labor, now the unskilled labor.
By Bushwood 1144115631 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removei think the unskilled labour was the first to go
By Nippyt 1144238959 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removehummmm...
By muzone 1144104668 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removejust IMAGINE the stuff you could do with that......
By hii44 1144101856 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removebut it looks to me like there is a lot of prepping involved per picture. a regular desk printer simply prints a series of horizontal lines that eventually end up looking like the picture or text that you told it to print. This system, however, uses seemingly improvised movements, possibly programed by an actual graffiti artist. There is also the factor of unwanted movement, because it uses two strings on both sides at the top of the picture, rather than, say, steel rods along the length and width of the picture, which would make it a lot easier to move the can precisely along the wall. But all these imperfections in the system cause me to be even more impressed with the inventors, who had to go through incredibly long and *boring* physics calculations to make this possible.
This reminded me of another drawing robot I saw on the web. here's the link:
http :// www .zefrank .com / scribbler / scrib_bot / index. html
AS IF A COMMENT!! THAT'S JUST A PARAGRAPH OF WORDS!! LOL!!!
By kitty kitty kit kat 1144261997 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThat's awesome!
By HanDuet 1144095014 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeis some serious technology there ... yea you guys think what the hell its just one spray can flying around but think about the geometry and the robotics involved ... wow simply amazing .
By Dudik 1144093466 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveOtherwise very nice, but a LOT of unnecessary movement to my untrained eye, at least. The drawing software needs a bit optimising...
By arrowEST 1144092891 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removemaybe because of those "unnecessary" movents picture is PERFECT
can't be unnecesary move here, it's sooooo precision-made pic
are quite necessary... Because of the momentum of the swinging can, there is a 'window' where it is safe to spray, preceeded and followed by an inherently unstable motion. Otherwise, the math involved isn't very complicated, just translate either a straight line (easy) or a curve (bit more difficult) into xy-motion and then steer this motion with 2 liines using a co-angular calculus. Then again, maybe not ;)
By b2c 1144098710 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removemen thats amazing
By David@portugal 1144092254 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis is amazing :o
By Metalfusion 1144085464 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveWell done on a large printer scale. I liked the way it was controled.
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