Halloween Pumpkin Carving With CNC Robotics 73
An anonymous reader writes "A guy at Lumenlab has created a way to carve his face on a pumpkin using his DIY CNC gantry robot. I think this demonstration says a lot about the future ubiquity of the technology. I'm really looking forward to the day that I have one of these machines in my garage."
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Get your facts straight! (Score:2)
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Holy Crap! (Score:5, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fine_(actor) [wikipedia.org]
This is really obligatory! (Score:5, Funny)
Very cool (Score:2, Interesting)
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Offtopic? Offtopic? No, it's not offtopic. At least mod it correctly: It's either A) Funny or B) Troll. And damn, why do the mods have no sense of humor today?
nice pumpkin, but (Score:4, Interesting)
I think I like the /. article pumpkin [slashdot.org] better. I can't imagine how you'd carve that thing... I mean, even the spikes... how? incredible.
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I think I like the /. article pumpkin [slashdot.org] better. I can't imagine how you'd carve that thing... I mean, even the spikes... how? incredible.
If you RTFA, then you will know that is not the pumpkin he carved, he used CNC machine to carve his face on a pumpkin, not a demonic face. It is still incredible though
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Well, and if you cared to read the comment you just replied to, you may find out that he already knows, and that he still likes the one samzenpus used better.
And it's not demonic, FFS, it's a predator!
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Whoa whoa whoa I have to stop you.
A?! demonic face [wikipedia.org]?!
GTFO. Seriously. Try again tomorrow.
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DOOOM (Score:1)
Wrong picture... taken from here (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Wrong picture... taken from here (Score:5, Interesting)
Exactly. The CNC methods are fun and all, but it's really offensive to have a solid, hand-carved artwork misattributed like that. The photo should be removed.
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If the second pic was properly attributed to the site it came from I don't think it matters, but since it isn't, it either should be or be removed.
Seconded!
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What's worse is that the CNC carved pumpkin is only shown lit up from a distance -- no up close detail or anything. I'd also swear it looks like the lit up CNC carved pumpkin isn't actually a carving but is an image projected onto the pumpkin -- the lighting just doesn't look right, but this is just an impression I don't really have any proof.
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Offensive? To who, pumpkin artists everywhere?
What percentage of the population do you think that is? If we can't afford to offend pumpkin artists we have seriously gone off the deep end.
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No offense, but your an idiot.
He was not talking about offending a small minority of people, which according to you does not matter since they are a minority. An offensive concept in of itself, I might add.
What he was referring to, of which I agree, is that is offensive to mislead people and attribute one person's work to another regardless of the nature of that work and its popularity.
This is about ethics and professional conduct in journalism.
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"Ethics" and "professional conduct"? On Slashdot?
You must be new here... :-)
But yeah, I had to browse through the comments to figure out where that picture came from. It's very annoying when things like this aren't properly attributed.
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I find it offensive to represent one person's work as someone else's, especially when one is machine-made and another is hand-made.
Silence....I kill you! (Score:1)
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I, for one, welcome our robotic CNC overlords.
hmmm (Score:2)
His face? (Score:1)
...A guy at Lumenlab has created a way to carve his face on a pumpkin ...
Thats his face?
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If it is, he's a dead ringer for my ex-wife!
AVP (Score:5, Funny)
Alien Pumpkin versus Predator Pumpkin: Whoever Wins, We... get pumpkin pie
Massively misleading article summary and photo (Score:5, Informative)
Just in case it isn't obvious, the photo is NOT related to the article summary and the pumpkin was NOT carved on a CNC machine! This article is massively misleading. The photo was stolen from another site featuring hand-carved pumpkins. I doubt a CNC machine could even vaguely come close to doing that on a material so soft and flexible.
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whether a material is soft and flexible doesn't mean it can't be CNC'ed, it just means that the bit will have to rotate a lot faster and the movement speed
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Redundant but here's the site with that pumpkin - featured on DIGG awhile ago which is how I found it -> http://www.villafanestudios.com/pumpkins.htm [villafanestudios.com]
I believe you but .... (Score:2)
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OMG Slashdot uses misleading intro to increase their viewership, news at 11.
Nice carving, but ... (Score:5, Interesting)
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There's a famous Charles Addams cartoon that shows a field of pumpkins, with one in the foreground being carved from the inside: just a knife blade sticking out, busily cutting away...
Alas, I can't find a pic online.
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I can almost hear the flurry of foolish {Insert deity of your choice}-ian people (*) writing to {Insert idiotic excuse for a newspaper in your region} along the lines of "Look at this photo of a pumpkin I brought. It's got an image of [ {Insert deity of choice} OR {Insert angel of choice} OR {Insert demon of choice} OR {Insert politician of choice} ] and therefore proves that [ { ( {deity of choice} exists ) OR ( {politician of choice} is the [spawn of {devil of choice} ] OR [ favoured of {deity of choic
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Goat pic? (Score:2)
Ok... is it just me, or did the smaller pic look like a pumpkin goatse to anyone else?
Oh god... the interwebs, they've rotted my brains.
the pumpkin is cool and all... (Score:3, Informative)
Pumpkin Carved with a Laser Cutter (Score:1)
http://apps.soe.ucsc.edu/elkaim/archives/000333.html [ucsc.edu]
My ex did it by hand... (Score:2)
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