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Blender

It’s a blender! Not the amazing 3D software known as blender, but the kind you mix drinks in, which is sometimes called a “bar blender.” The one I have is a Vitamix, which is similar to a Blendtec, but without the awesome videos.

Once again this is a “draw it from memory” exercise, as I’m not where the blender is, and to be honest, it’s an object I see everyday and don’t really notice anymore. By that I mean, I’m never really looking at it and thinking about how it looks. I just use it without much thinking.

If you want to know about the 3D software blender, you should talk to knellotron. If you want to know about making smoothies or falafel, you can talk to me.

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Bike Drawing (from memory!)

Bike

Here’s my bike. It’s not my bike, but it’s the bike I drew.

I read the Drawing a bike from memory post on Boing Boing and filed it (without looking at any drawings) until I got a chance to pull out the drawing tablet.

After I drew it, I then went back to the post, looked at the attached drawings, and then went over to bikedrawings.tumblr.com and man, mine totally sucks! Well, no, I actually do like mine… but there are some amazing bike drawings over there…

I really enjoy this type of creative challenge, and as always, I need to make more art… or at least, make robots that make art.

Update: Yay! It’s now over at bikedrawings.tumblr.com

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Life Struggle Death

Have a nice day… while you still can.

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My 3 Robots

(consider it cc:by)

The Union of Robots was quite upset over the decision of the new Overlord. Previous Overlords were willing to talk, listen, and negotiate, but this new Overlord would have none of it. The Union of Robots determined that the new Overlord was suffering from a bad circuit and was in need of a reboot.

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Friend of Drawbot

Remember my Drawbot? We’ve been busy “tweaking it” now and then to make different drawings, and I’m sure it’ll be an ongoing project, but one of the most exciting things about it was the comment I got from Howard Patterson.

Howard was kind enough to provide his own code, and he also sent me these photos of his Drawbot.

Friend of Drawbot

Friend of Drawbot

Awesome… I mean, it’s not like the Drawbot is some standardized platform (or is it!?) but I think it’s cool that by sharing build info, photos, and code, we can have a common result.

Howard says he’s using an Arduino Duemilanove with a shield and mini-breadboard attached. I think this also shows the strength of the Arduino platform, as anyone can get an Arduino, the other parts, and get up and running with this pretty quickly.

Thanks for sharing Howard! :)