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Giant "Inkjet Printer"
mustrum_ridcully writes "For all you who don't like the cost of inkjet printers how about this printer that uses spray paint (courtesy of bbc news ). Ok it's not exactly what you'd call compact, but perfect for the lazy or wannabe graffiti artist." Having just finished doing a bunch of painting in my house, I'd like to have one of those machines drop down over my house, and paint via program - maybe I can use as GBA SP as the control device.
A rehash of the plotter, only using spray paint instead of a pen.
The artistic benefit of this new device may not be long lived if it does become commonplace, it would be like making paintings using a plotter.
Looks more like a plotter than a printer. From the sound of the article it holds one can and traces a path with it, rather than sweeping across the "page" and marking dots at the appropriate point.
The machine I think should be better described as a wall painting robot rather than a "wall printer".
A similar thing would be to fit a spray can onto this wall climbing robot.
Surprising that nobody has automated wall painting yet, then we wouldnt need to have these plain colored walls anymore. All of us could have our favorite frescos. Just get me a large res. image of the cistine chapel roof!!
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How long until Epson and HP start producing 20ml aerosols with chips in?
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You're not supposed to know or care who he is, just buy things witrh his face on them from the dodgey eggs at the markets :)
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
At
http://www.hektor.ch/
you can watch a cool movie of Hector in action, aswell as some technical information.
Check out STREET WRITER. It's a modified van that will spray paint entire messages on the street. :-)
Now this is a giant ink jet printer.
The article is kind of light on details of sales and such though. Looks more like a hack job.
I doubt that commercial uses were the designers' primary motives, given that the machine was the winning entry in an art contest. The clue was in the "light on details" article:
"The machine has already won an award at the 2003 Machinista media art festival."
Also, the article gives a strong indication that the designers don't seem to be commercial developers:
"Researcher Jürg Lehni came up with the idea for Hektor when thinking about novel ways for an artist to turn computer-drawn images into something more concrete.
He wanted to combine the precision of computer-generated images with the woolier outlines produced by spray paint.
Working with friend and electronic engineering student Uli Franke, Mr Lehni created Hektor. The machine suspends a spray paint using two toothed belts that feed through a pair of motors."
Again, the focus seems to be on art, not on commercial applications.
Additionally, you seem to have missed the links to the Hektor, Machinista and the Zurich Kunsthaus gallery, where another Hektor-implemented piece of art can be found.
Cunningly - some would say as cunningly as a fox, what used to be professor of cunning at OxfordUniversity, who is now head of the United Nations department of cunning planning* - these were hidden on the very same page, under the deceptive title "Related Internet Links".
Is it me, or even when they RTFA do people forget to RTFA?
(* You can't use the word cunning without quoting Blackadder.)
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