We enjoy hacks that combine or alter devices, enhancing (or subverting) their purpose in the process, but [Japhy Riddle] reminds us all that sometimes it’s fun just to enjoy a spectacle. In this case, it’s an old paper shredder given wheels and a continuous line of paper to rip into.
The result is a device demonstrating a shredder-based form of locomotion, noisily pulling itself along by its own insatiable appetite.
It even looks like a robot, even though there’s nothing really going on inside. It just mindlessly and noisily consumes, converting paper into shreds, moving inexorably forward and limited only by the supply of paper or the length of its power cable, whichever is shorter. Powerful artistic statement, or simple spectacle? You be the judge.
Want to try your hand at a paper shredder-inspired piece? You can take artistic inspiration from the stock tracker that literally shreds your money when the market is down, or if you’re more interested in the worky bits, make your own shredder from LEGO.
So its like a paper shark?
Is Banksy interested?
Would be nice if whomever bought the half shredded Banksy would open it up to see if it really did get sliced. The X-Acto blades shown in the build photos that were released were laying flat and could not have sliced the painting cleanly like came out of the frame.
Pulling paper past a flat pocket knife, you can in fact get a fairly clean cut, I’m not so sure it’s as impossible as they say.
“ Powerful artistic statement, or simple spectacle?”
Why not both?
Coming to a theater not near you…
Shrednado.. Heart of Shredness…
Watch Paper Dolls Running For Their Lives…
I hear the it drove the director nuts! Every time he yelled CUT!
You can just imagine the confusion and resulting cost and schedule over runs.
A mailbox with a built-in shredder.
That just sounds damn practical. I think I’ll make one
I feel like this should be chasing down a dot matrix printer furiously printing HELP messages as it tries to escape.
DO IT!!!!
Thanks, made my day until I got to thinking about doing just that.
That is just so weird and dumb and pointless. I love it!!!
Paper Spaghetti! Whoooo!
putting casters on a paper shedder is a hack?
Yes, yes it is.