Halloween Pumpkin Carving With CNC Robotics

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."

Wrong picture... taken from here

[bryansj]

This guy was on Food Network and won the pumpkin carving challenge. The Predator pumpkin shown was stolen from his site. http://www.villafanestudios.com/pumpkins.htm [villafanestudios.com]

Massively misleading article summary and photo

[nmg196]

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.

the pumpkin is cool and all...

[viridari]

...but Lumenlab is a much cooler site to go to in that they produce an affordable mini-CNC mill [lumenlab.com] for $599 that is run by open source software [linuxcnc.org].

Re:nice pumpkin, but

[alx5000]

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!