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Recently, Instructables found a new and shiny toy in the office -- Evil Mad Scientist's Egg-Bot. This is a really fun toy that allows you to create or import your design into Inkscape and print it on an egg.
As you can see from the pictures, you need to carefully place your egg within the machine and calibrate it properly using Egg-Bot's plugin for Inkscape to ensure that the pen always hits the egg as your design is being drawn. There is definitely an art to doing this well. These pictures are from my first attempts and tests, some of which turned out better than others.
Most of the images drawn on the eggs can be found online pretty easily as members of the community have shared their files.
As you can see from the pictures, you need to carefully place your egg within the machine and calibrate it properly using Egg-Bot's plugin for Inkscape to ensure that the pen always hits the egg as your design is being drawn. There is definitely an art to doing this well. These pictures are from my first attempts and tests, some of which turned out better than others.
Most of the images drawn on the eggs can be found online pretty easily as members of the community have shared their files.
The nutrition facts plot is incredible! It shows that the plotter (can we call Egg-Bot that?) has a great resolution for a kit-based device. I'm hoping to get me an Egg-Bot one day. Hopefully in time for Easter :)
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7232
also go on youtube and type in egg-bot and find videos on it.
The original was invented to teach kids how to build one using a computer about 20 years ago and the inventor updated it. He was on Martha Stewart Show over a year ago.
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/the-incredible-eggbot
http://wiki.evilmadscience.com/Hardware_reference_design
http://evilmadscience.com/productsmenu/tinykitlist/171-egg-bot
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