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Hektor: the Graffiti Robot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kids-these-days dept.

Lopex writes "Gizmodo has a story about Hektor, a graffiti robot. Apparently it is for the extremely geeky (or perhaps extremely lazy) tagger. Hektor.ch has photos, information (pdf), and a movie (15 Mb) of it in action."

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  1. I saw this by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 3, Informative

    Many moons ago (at least a couple of years I think) on the discovery channel, or similar. But they were showing it off as an abstract artist. I think the idea behind that is any monkey can construct a robot to "trace" a digital image. It would just be an oversized printer.

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  2. Re:Wow by dAzED1 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I know you're just being silly, but it looked to me like the can was very controlled. There were fine details that lacked any drip. The drip that did exist looked pretty intentional.

    Look over the pictures again. Any picture that shows drip will show plenty of areas with none. There are also other pictures with no drip at all.

  3. This has been posted on /. before by bat2k · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the old post.

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  4. This thing is really quite an engineering feat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I saw this yesterday on Gizmodo, and was tremendously impressed with not only the quality of workmanship, but also the terrific software design - these guys created a custom program to take input from Adobe Illustrator, and create paths upon which Hektor can travel easily. See Scriptographer.com for the plugin. Really tremendous product, and the results are amazing (check out the portrait of Che Guevara in the PDF!)

  5. holy pop ups batman! by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Informative

    if you click on the jpg link... consider yourself warned

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  6. Mirror by ripleymj · · Score: 5, Informative

    Video available here

    PDF available here