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glumbert.com — A computer-controlled graffiti machine.

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 26, 2007

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  • GTPilot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27gangsta 2.0
  • dbhaley, on 10/12/2007, -12/+29A useless invention
  • admirabumblebee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13It will be called "dupe"...

    but only if you hit "show comment" from whoever said it being dugg down so many times for being right.
  • deivys, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10A while back it was referred as a big printer. Now its being called a graffiti machine. I wonder what it'll be called a couple of months from now.
  • bakagaigin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@revmonkey
    I agree, I think this would have been far cooler had the design been randomly generated by an algorithm. In my opinion, generative art the best form of artwork on the computer. This is just far too pre-defined. Impressive, though...
  • mfratz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Easily one of the coolest things I have seen on Digg videos.
  • livetheride, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Here's a video of it doing graffiti:

    http://www.hektor.ch/Videos/Amok.mov/
  • davidrools, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yeah that mural of a house and trees was totally gangsta style

    pretty cool to see what you can do with two motors, an on/off solenoid and some programming skillz.
  • spearce, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8not really graffiti. more like a spray paint plotter.
  • WebCester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What's weird is that the picture it sprays is the logo of the organic food branch of one of the big supermarkets here in Switzerland, Coop Naturaplan.
    (http://www.coop.ch/naturaplan/ )

    I wonder if they can just give it an image file or if they need to program exactly what the robot does.
  • reevolutn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Demolition Man already did it
  • noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Imagine one equiped with a can of spray on glass chalk suspended on the side of a skyscraper.
  • livetheride, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Banksy would have no use for one of these. He's a stencil artist.
  • livetheride, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is Hektor: http://www.hektor.ch/

    From the site: "Hektor is a portable Spray-paint Output Device for laptop computers. It was created in close collaboration with engineer Uli Franke for Jürg Lehni's diploma project at écal (école cantonale d'art de Lausanne) in 2002."

    Way more videos here: http://www.hektor.ch/Videos/
  • noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know who makes this? I can see a lot of outdoor marketing potential in this.
  • Phearce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1exactly. imagine a viral marketing campaign where you hook something like this spray-paint plotter onto the side of a van, and drive along a wall or through a tunnel in a city.
  • reevolutn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the only similarity between that and banksy is the fact it uses a can of spraypaint
  • thesimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i was suprised to see it do such straight accurate lines when it wanted :D
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2banksy needs one of those.
  • Brss45, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it kind of reminds me of the little robot at the national museum of natural history, in new york.

    i remember reading that it made random designs with different colors, and in the next phase it picks out largely dense areas of color, and adds to those spots, basically taking dark spots and making them darker, etc. the only thing is, it is completely random about it, unlike this one with it's pre-entered design, the little robot moves in random direction and looks for pattern, which it then emphasizes.
  • Smono, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And the most important ingredient... a can of spray paint. :)
  • hoogie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought it made a mistake when it left a space in the roof - then it came back and added the chimney.
  • Brss45, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sorry for abuse, but my edit took too long, and was deleted.

    his name is RAP (robotic action painter)

    http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/human/art2.php
  • ntwrkguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1uh oh....new york city council man peter vallone jr. is about to have a new personal enemy...
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cuz he doesn't have one of these things.
  • bluk9t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is awesome!! I would us it to paint my rooms in my house.

  • steppingrazor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2BANKSY...I love that guys stuff
  • rasensio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the police will arrive before this thing draw the first line
  • quinnmct, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1its like a really big, wierd printer
  • psa21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now just set it up on a bridge with a power generator, wait 5 hours and BAM instant grafitti
  • billybates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That should be on a infomercial. "Just set it, and forget it"
  • havok7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0it looks either stop motion or its just sped up. Either way, still pretty cool.
  • DRGinLBC, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6I'm a high tech gangsta, biatch!
  • monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3graffiti machine is more fitting...and it is not useless.
  • revmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -15/+8it takes away the whole point of graffiti. a form of expression, roaming the streets... takes out the soul in it.

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