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Halloween Pumpkin Carving With CNC Robotics

Posted by samzenpus on from the high-tech-carving dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A guy at Lumenlab has created a way to carve his face on a pumpkin using his DIY CNC gantry robot. I think this demonstration says a lot about the future ubiquity of the technology. I'm really looking forward to the day that I have one of these machines in my garage."

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  1. Holy Crap! by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fine_(actor)

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  2. This is really obligatory! by cosmocain · · Score: 4, Funny

    Take this!

  3. nice pumpkin, but by v1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think I like the /. article pumpkin better. I can't imagine how you'd carve that thing... I mean, even the spikes... how? incredible.

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  4. Re:Whoa! by tritonman · · Score: 5, Funny

    That pumpkin is an abomination! It represents all that is wrong with the world taken over by robots, so much for the sanctity of halloween! I'm sure this one will make the baby jesus cry, when he created halloween, this is NOT what he had in mind!

  5. Wrong picture... taken from here by bryansj · · Score: 5, Informative

    This guy was on Food Network and won the pumpkin carving challenge. The Predator pumpkin shown was stolen from his site. http://www.villafanestudios.com/pumpkins.htm

    1. Re:Wrong picture... taken from here by HEbGb · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Exactly. The CNC methods are fun and all, but it's really offensive to have a solid, hand-carved artwork misattributed like that. The photo should be removed.

  6. AVP by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alien Pumpkin versus Predator Pumpkin: Whoever Wins, We... get pumpkin pie

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  7. Massively misleading article summary and photo by nmg196 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just in case it isn't obvious, the photo is NOT related to the article summary and the pumpkin was NOT carved on a CNC machine! This article is massively misleading. The photo was stolen from another site featuring hand-carved pumpkins. I doubt a CNC machine could even vaguely come close to doing that on a material so soft and flexible.

  8. Nice carving, but ... by Muad'Dave · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...I'd love to see the same sort of thing done from inside the pumpkin (through a hole in the top), without piercing the outside skin on the side. The pumpkin would look unmolested until you illuminated it from the inside. Wooo!!! Scary!!!

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  9. the pumpkin is cool and all... by viridari · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...but Lumenlab is a much cooler site to go to in that they produce an affordable mini-CNC mill for $599 that is run by open source software.

  10. Re:Whoa! by popmaker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jesus did not create halloween, and you must not anger the halloween spirits, or this will happen: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_has_halloween_become