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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. 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!

  2. 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

  3. 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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