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The egg printer

Roywanglu shares pics of his automated egg writer - the EggDrawer. Not a lot of info available for this one, but those are some great results from what looks to be a relatively simple setup. Check out more results in his Flickr photostream.

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Posted by: Ian McNabb on May 4, 2009 at 6:40 AM

Looks a lot like this: http://www.taomc.com/educational_uses/teaching_machines/eggbot.html

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Posted by: thunderhammer on May 4, 2009 at 7:46 AM

That's Amazing

Impressive idea, impressive execution. (True greatness requires both)

It appears to me that his apparatus approximates the egg as a sphere. Reminds me of the old "You might be an engineer if... you've ever approximated a horse as a sphere"

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Posted by: svofski on May 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM

This is insanely cool

Yes it is. Simple, clever, awesome. I would love to see a video of this in action.

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Posted by: RocketGuy on May 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM

Looks like a particularly fine example.

Either servo or nuts&volts did an article on this sort of bot, looks like the same design. Really nicely done, makes me yearn for when I have my machine shop set up...

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