Raleigh - establish engineer Shane Wighton was give a robotic limb to essay , but instead of making it do normal action like the YMCA dance , Wighton decided to strap a chain saw to that sucker and make a small - polygon frank out of foam board .
Shane , do n’t you recognise this is how robot rebellion get down ? You give one automaton a chainsaw and the residue of them will hang into formation . Chainsaw bot leave to amachine gun strap to a Big Dogwhich , in crook , leads to anarmy of Atlas robotsdeciding who lives and dies establish on their iron content . Nothing good ever comes of adding a chainsaw to anything .
Undeterred , Wighton used aTormach robotic arm(which costs close to $ 20,000 ) and some CNC package to teach the arm how to carve in three dimensions . The summons , which required programming the Tormach to know when to jab , slice , and cut back the foam card , is quite vivid and the resulting product is quite coolheaded .
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In this video , he also snuff it through a frustrating trial - and - error phase when the full alignment was off , resulting in something that attend like an exotic monolith .
With a few pinch , however , he was finally about to produce the foam dog of his dream . While it ’s nochainsaw - carve dragoncycle , it ’s definitely a good start . And the arm , as you may get word , is really flash , which is great — when it finally becomes ego - cognisant and turns on its maker , he ’ll hear it come .
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