Comments on: Self-portrait machine

By: or_muddslinger

or_muddslinger — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:16:27 +0000

Wow…. Strap on or in and go for a ride… Looks like the beginning of a robotic bondage machine to me… I could defiantly see old Bob Ross strapping this sucker on and going all Lawn-Mower-Man on all of the happy little trees, clouds and squirrels in the forest…. Don’t ever see myself strapping into this love machine, but I am sure some would like it.

By: TheBlunderbuss

TheBlunderbuss — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:43:10 +0000

There’s a “in Soviet Russia” joke in there somewhere.

By: sol

sol — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:57:04 +0000

@hendi
Bob Ross would love this project and would justify it on the basis of the “happy little squirrels” running in the wheels that control the x and y axes of the pen.

By: hendi

hendi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:43:49 +0000

What would Bob Ross say ?

By: skinner

skinner — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:22:26 +0000

*facepalm*

Few of you actually realize what the point of this is. The point is not to draw a picture of a person. If that was the goal a machine could be created to draw much faster than moving humans limbs.

the point is to show how dependent we are on machines to do things for us. Adding to the list, there are 24 hour dry cleaners that accept laundry 24 hours a day and you can also pick up 24 hours a day. Humans do the work during the day but the machine sorts the clothes and everything else. Soon (as this work shows) we’ll have machines doing everything for us.

By: MDude

MDude — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:25:32 +0000

But it doesn’t make portraits of itself at at all, just drawings of those lousy humans! It even needs their weak little hands to hold the pen for it. Machines these days are too dependant on people.

By: nubie

nubie — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:11:13 +0000

Why does this remind me of when they strapped workers to a stamping machine so that the machine would yank their arms out before it smashed down?

Scary.

By: Hitek146

Hitek146 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:31:51 +0000

I need one of those face-palm buttons mentioned in the wtf button topic…

The human element in this project is completely irrelevant and unnecessary. If the marker were mounted to the machine, the image would still be created just the same. Why not just have a cradle for a person’s wrist, and then have the machine just move the paper around under the person’s hand? Kind of like strapping a human to a plotter^^^. This just makes no sense to me… :(

By: sol

sol — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:34:42 +0000

@benny m
strapping somebody to a printer is a pretty novel hack, if you ask me

By: sunjester

sunjester — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:19:04 +0000

i believe we already saw this, except the last one didn’t make you strap into the machine.

i mean, where is the machine taking his picture or reading his face?

By: grovenstien

grovenstien — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:09:00 +0000

Hmm i think other posters are not quite getting the idea of this, nor the irony! Also do people really need to slate people for there speeling!

By: SelfSilent

SelfSilent — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:47:03 +0000

What a load of crap, it’s just a plotter that you lean on.

By: grovenstien

grovenstien — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:56:04 +0000

A time lapse of this would look very funny!

By: grovenstien

grovenstien — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:55:09 +0000

How long before it goes mental and rips of your arms!

By: Benny M

Benny M — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:44:48 +0000

@vash_sin
Well what do you think I’m going to say? I totally agree with bill hates and samantha.

@bill hates & @ samantha
Learn to spell. Thank you, come again.

@The Machine
Isn’t this basically just strapping someone to a printer?