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    <updated>2008-12-15T22:32:31Z</updated>
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    <title>Halloween, Jack O&apos; Lanterns, and Robots?</title>
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    <published>2008-10-30T16:05:37Z</published>
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    <summary>It&apos;s almost Halloween and you need a Jack O&apos; Lantern to greet the kid&apos;s. &#160;You&apos;re terrible at carving and you have no design skills. So what to do?I&apos;ve found your solution. &#160;For the meager price tag of $1,575.00 (plus shipping)...</summary>
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        <name>Scott Bouchard</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<span style="display: inline;" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"><a href="http://blog.tmcnet.com/design-vs-functionality/lumenlab-pumpkin.jpg"><img height="200" width="200" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/design-vs-functionality/assets_c/2008/10/lumenlab-pumpkin-thumb-200x200.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" class="mt-image-left" alt="lumenlab-pumpkin.jpg" /></a></span>It's almost Halloween and you need a Jack O' Lantern to greet the kid's. &#160;You're terrible at carving and you have no design skills. So what to do?<br /><br />I've found your solution. &#160;For the meager price tag of $1,575.00 (plus shipping) you can own your very own robot that will do it for you in a bout 20 minutes time!<br /><br /><a href="http://lumenlab.com/">Lumenlab</a> has found a new use for their <a href="http://lumenlab.com/estore/product.php?productid=16271">DIY CNC RoGR Gantry Robot</a>... transferring your face to a pumpkin. &#160;All it takes is the robot, a photo, and open source software called <a href="http://linuxcnc.org/">EMC2</a>. &#160;EMC2 &#160;comes with a program called "Image to gcode" that allows you to transition a gray scale indexed image to a depth map g-code for the RoGR to follow.<br /><br />Very non traditional and probably not the most efficient use of a robot, but definitely interesting. &#160;<a href="http://lumenlab.com/2008/10/pumpkin/">See more about the carving and a video here</a>.]]>
        
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