Sept 9, 2010: Egg Bot

xoxoxoBruce · 09-08-2010, 11:00 PM

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.

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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.

Sounds like fun.

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toranokaze · 09-09-2010, 12:42 AM

In my day all you got to color eggs was a box of crayons

SPUCK · 09-09-2010, 05:01 AM

Is this where we find out Sharpies are poisonous?

Trilby · 09-09-2010, 05:47 AM

I think the bestest Christmas balls are Schweddy's delicious balls!

classicman · 09-09-2010, 07:56 AM

Looks pretty neat, but for $200 - dayum.

ZenGum · 09-09-2010, 08:08 AM

I wouldn't shell out that much.

classicman · 09-09-2010, 08:26 AM

yolk yolk yolk

xoxoxoBruce · 09-09-2010, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman

Looks pretty neat, but for $200 - dayum.

That's dirt cheap for what's involved to do that.

Sheldonrs · 09-09-2010, 08:31 AM

Hmmm... I wonder...

classicman · 09-09-2010, 09:01 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 · 09-09-2010, 11:24 AM

Cheaper than going to a tattoo parlor to get your balls inked.

Pete Zicato · 09-09-2010, 01:30 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 · 09-09-2010, 02:51 PM

That won't cover what you have, and it plain, no designs, which it the point.

Cloud · 09-09-2010, 03:15 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 · 09-09-2010, 05:50 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?

Because nobody is going to buy a global warming solution unless Ron Popiel sells it.

09-09-2010, 12:42 AM	#2
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	In my day all you got to color eggs was a box of crayons __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.

09-09-2010, 05:47 AM	#4
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I think the bestest Christmas balls are Schweddy's delicious balls! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

09-09-2010, 07:56 AM	#5
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Looks pretty neat, but for $200 - dayum. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

09-09-2010, 08:08 AM	#6
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I wouldn't shell out that much. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

09-09-2010, 08:26 AM	#7
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	yolk yolk yolk __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

09-09-2010, 05:01 AM	#3
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Is this where we find out Sharpies are poisonous?

09-09-2010, 08:31 AM	#9
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	Hmmm... I wonder... __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

09-09-2010, 09:01 AM	#10
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	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. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

09-09-2010, 11:24 AM	#11
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Cheaper than going to a tattoo parlor to get your balls inked. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-09-2010, 01:30 PM	#12
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	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 __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

09-09-2010, 02:51 PM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That won't cover what you have, and it plain, no designs, which it the point. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-09-2010, 03:15 PM	#14
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	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? __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

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