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The Pixel Roller

[Via WMMNA] This is the one of the most incredible projects you absolutely need to see. The Pixel Roller "rolls" out a picture in any direction on any surface using phosophescent ink which will eventually fad away. Check out the video here and gallery here.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Mar 22, 2005 01:52 AM
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Posted by: alankilian on March 22, 2005 at 5:08 AM

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Posted by: alankilian on March 22, 2005 at 5:09 AM

Holy cow!!! Movable type is an AWFUL way to have people participate in a discussion.

I can-t use an apostraphe in my postings.

So I

Posted by: alankilian on March 22, 2005 at 5:11 AM

ARGHHHHHHHHH. I was trying to tell you how this thing works, but your blog software is horrible.

I give up!

Posted by: alankilian on March 22, 2005 at 5:11 AM

I'm pretty sure that's not true. It's got'ta be pretty easy to 'postrophe up your posts.

Posted by: AP on March 22, 2005 at 6:45 AM

It-s probably Internet-Explorer compatible or something like that.

I-m using Firefox 1.0.1 on a Fedora-Core-3 Linux distribution.

Windows-only? What are you using?

Posted by: alankilian on March 22, 2005 at 9:08 AM

Kinda looks like a Movable Type/HTML entry bug to me.
Bug list

Posted by: alankilian on March 22, 2005 at 9:15 AM

On Topic:

Wow, that this is quite impressive. Any howtos?

Posted by: abstrakONE on March 22, 2005 at 10:00 AM

I saw something similar a while back, but have since lost the link... It was a contraption that was made from five spraypaint cans and rolled along the ground. As the machine creeped across a parking lot, it would paint "pixels" to spell out a pre-determined message.

Anyone know of the link?

Posted by: toddly on March 22, 2005 at 11:12 AM

You're thinking of the Bikes Against Bush guy.

There's also Hektor, the graffiti "printing" robot, which is sorta related.

Posted by: el_wombato on March 22, 2005 at 4:44 PM

The Graffiti Writer and the Street Writer, the projects Bikes against Bush ripped off^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H used as inspiration, are the creation of the Institute of Applied Autonomy

Posted by: Wonkybutt on March 24, 2005 at 4:58 PM

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