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CardJoe · 21st Dec 2007, 10:55

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/12...h_talc_robot/1

In the tech equivalent to messing around in the kitchen with flour and getting a scolding from your mother, a team of students have made a robot which prints on carpet using talcum powder.

Arkanrais · 21st Dec 2007, 11:07

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Alternatively, fill the hopper with weed killer and give your neighbour a nice personalised message scorched into his lawn.

I have now found a way to deliver revenge one the old b****** across the street from me. perhaps I'll use methylated spirits instead and a well aimed match.

Rebourne · 21st Dec 2007, 11:52

That's just going to be annoying.

C0nKer · 21st Dec 2007, 12:37

wow... my project for a similar course is horribly lame compared to that.

Redbeaver · 21st Dec 2007, 17:54

w00t, my project for 4th year embedded system is a "mouse"

no, not the one that eats cheese, nor the one with optical eye that u move around ur hand to point stuff in the monitor.... but a standalone electro-mechanical entity with AI capable of solving a maze and find the shortest path

i miss college

no wait, not entirely... lol but its always good to see undergraduate computer program that keeps pushing the limit of creativity!

Cupboard · 21st Dec 2007, 19:13

Reminds me of when someone drew a huge penis outside our school canteen in salt!

I wonder how anyone came up with this idea! Its genius though - the next step should be to put a vacuum on one end, so it can clean up after itself and replenish the supplies!

DXR_13KE · 21st Dec 2007, 19:54

its kind of slow compared to some robots i saw sometime ago....

TheEclypse · 21st Dec 2007, 22:39

Maybe you could use it to automate seed planting for farmers?

metarinka · 22nd Dec 2007, 19:58

wasn't a very similar system alreadsy developed by a student at MIT. It did the same thing with powdered chalk and it was attached to a bicycle allowing him to draw messages on the sidewalk by just riding around

Spaceraver · 23rd Dec 2007, 00:48

GG. We had a similar type of cartoonist like Heath Robinson here in Denmark namely Storm P. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Storm_Petersen He was a painter too.. He did more then 60.000 drawings and various other works of art.

21st Dec 2007, 10:55	#1
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Cupboard I'm not a modder. Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Bury St Edmunds/Durham Uni Posts: 1,848	Reminds me of when someone drew a huge penis outside our school canteen in salt! I wonder how anyone came up with this idea! Its genius though - the next step should be to put a vacuum on one end, so it can clean up after itself and replenish the supplies! __________________ i7 920, 8800GTS 512, 6GB Corsair all in an Intel DX58SO; 3*320GB RAID5; CM Stacker Samsung Q45.

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metarinka I am a Dremel Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,623	wasn't a very similar system alreadsy developed by a student at MIT. It did the same thing with powdered chalk and it was attached to a bicycle allowing him to draw messages on the sidewalk by just riding around __________________ project: Orbitoid project: Orbitoid discussion Project: Angry-9 the WWII radio

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