CNC hot-air gun used to draw faces, text on toast

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Slicing up ole Xbox consoles or using immensely powerful lasers to heat your morning cup of joe are certainly entertaining ways to make industrial machinery a bit more fun, but the CNC Toast printer ups the ante by providing an over-the-top replacement for those plastic molds we used as youngsters. By hacking a CNC hot-air gun to respond to a “computer-dictated X-Y control system” and affixing it to the carriage of a printer, the evil scientists were able instruct the toasty (ahem) blaster to move around in a user-selected pattern in order to print images and text onto pieces of toast. Cleverly dubbed “digital toast imaging technology,” the apparatus was able to affix a number of slightly awkward faces on slices of bread, and even imprint “Hello World” onto one piece in particular. Still, you can’t get the full impression of how geektacular this truly is without seeing it in motion, so that’s why you should click on through right about now and hit play, cool?[Via HackedGadgets]Continue reading CNC hot-air gun used to draw faces, text on toast Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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