CNC Pumpkin Carving by Lumenlab's RoGR Robot
I figured not much could be scarier than my own face on a Halloween pumpkin, so I set out to carve my face on a pumpkin using Lumenlab's DIY RoGR Robot kit.
The first issue was to get a head shot. They say beauty and brains don't go together; they were wrong twice!
Next was to create the g-code to run the robot. We use the incredibly great open source software called "EMC2" as our machine controller, which just so happens to come with a great little program called "Image to gcode" that let's you go from a grayscale indexed image to a depthmap g-code. Basically I used the Gimp to index the above image to 8 shades of gray, then imported the image to EMC2 with Image to g-code. Nothing to it!
Next was to get the pumpkin on the RoGR (Lumenlab's Robloks Gantry Robot)...
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Nicely done, IMO it's true
Nicely done, IMO it's true Renaissance thinking when people are able to combine are and geekery.
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Awesome. My question is...
Awesome. My question is... was it as easy as you made it sound?
That was cool! My kind of
That was cool! My kind of guy!
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I'm officially jealous. I had
I'm officially jealous. I had to carve my own face on a pumpkin the hard way.
http://www.saddlesores.org/pumpkins
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Awesome! Thanks for the
Awesome! Thanks for the mini-tutorial.
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I see that the depth map has
I see that the depth map has a flat background... Could you have summed it with a depth map of the surface of the pumpkin? You might have got better contrast around the edges of the picture that way.
Since a pumpkin is not flat,
Since a pumpkin is not flat, did the tool adapt the working depth to the pumpkin surface?
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