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Hand-cut Hand Saw Scenes: Cutting Edge Art

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You’re looking at a series of old hand saws that have been cut into various scenes of rural living (plus Bigfoot). Cindy Chinn (aka thesawlady) of Chester, Nebraska hand cuts these using a plasma torch. Note to self: buy yourself a plasma torch, you deserve it.

Available for sale through her Etsy shop from $90 to $150 depending on the size of the saw and complexity of the design, each saw is one-of-a-kind. Like people, but way more likely to transmit tetanus.

Obviously, these saws are not for cutting anymore. Their days of working as tools are long gone, now they can just sit back and enjoy their retirement as art. Am I jealous of these saws? Maybe just a little.

I can already imagine a few of these decorating the walls of my vacation cabin, which wasn’t easy because first I had to imagine owning a vacation cabin. Honestly, the daydreaming took a lot out of me, and now I could use a nap.

[via DudeIWantThat]

A Swiss-made ‘Apple Watch’ without a screen… or hands.

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I’ll be honest with you. The Swiss Alp Watch looks wonderful, but when I get to describing it, it’s a bit of a let-down. It’s worth noting that the watch is tagged as a Concept (although it is available for order for an obscene price of $350,000), and I personally feel it holds a LOT of potential as an Analog-Meets-Electronic concept. We’ll get to that later.

The Swiss Alp Watch (or SAW for short) comes from luxury Swiss timepiece brand, H. Moser and Cie, with its highlight being the way it looks. Designed with a silhouette that one may mistake for an Apple Watch from afar, the SAW comes with a rectangular body and a crown on the side, but what’s noteworthy is that the front doesn’t have a screen or hands. In fact, the SAW doesn’t visually indicate the time either. The watch comes with a ‘minute repeater’ that tells you the time through sound, using chimes to indicate what time of the day it is. A button on the side of the watch body lets you summon the chiming, letting the SAW tell you time through the medium of sound. The watch does, however, have an interesting visual element to admire. Right on the otherwise plain watch-face lies a cutout that showcases the watch’s undoubtedly eyecatching one-minute flying tourbillon, at the 6 o’clock position. The watch also comes with an exhibition back that lets you admire the intricate hand-wound HMC 901 caliber.

The fact that the watch only resembles a smartwatch and completely underplays the rectangular Apple Watch-esque aesthetic is honestly a bit of a let-down. I personally think the SAW would be an exceptional watch to own if the rest of the face were an OLED screen that had a cutout around the tourbillion the way Samsung and Huawei’s phones have a hole-punch where the camera is located. The contrast between a bright pixel-based screen, and an incredibly detailed flying tourbillion would work wonders, creating a unique combination of cutting-edge technology and century-old Swiss craftsmanship. Now I’d pay top dollar for that… maybe not $350,000 though.

Designer: H. Moser & Cie

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Robotic Carpenters Use Power Tools to Build Furniture

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You can add carpenters to the list of occupations that robots are going after now. A team of carpenter hating researchers from MIT‘s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory built this woodworking robot system. It goes by the name Autosaw.

This prototype robotic carpentry system can cut wood on its own, keeping workers safe. It uses various types of small robots to cut different types of lumber that can be used to assemble custom furniture. The idea is that you could choose from carpenter-designed templates for chairs, desks, and other furniture, and then the robots would churn the designs out, leaving real carpenters no other job aside from maybe cleaning up the sawdust.

The system could offer some flexibility for designing furniture for very small houses and apartments. For instance, it could modify a desk to squeeze into an L-shaped living room or customize a table to fit in a tiny kitchen.

The team that built it thinks that Autosaw could eventually be used for projects as large as a deck or a porch, while carpenters think that Autosaw could eventually be flattened under a steamroller so they can go back to their jobs.

[via Laughing Squid]

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ICYMI: Read your dog’s mood swings with tech

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This Crawling, Climbing Worm Robot Is Nightmare Fuel

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David Zarrouk’s latest robotic creation, dubbed “SAW” takes its inspiration from an ‘80s dance move known as the worm. With just one motor it can wriggle across the floor by moving its flexible body up and down. It can also swim, and even climb narrow spaces. Basically it can worm it’s way almost anywhere.

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It’s pretty damn creepy, but also pretty awesome. SAW stands for Single-Actuator Wave. It uses a single motor and a rotating wheel to move its 3D-printed flexible spine up and down in the shape of a sine wave. And that’s how it does it’s worm thing. When encased in a waterproof skin, it can even swim.

This robot is handy for exploring cool alternatives to walking, and what it teaches us could be useful for the robots we send to explore other planets. That way we can creep aliens out with our robots.

[via Design and Robotics, IEEE Spectrum, and Gizmodo]

This Chainsaw Plays Doom

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This gaming mod is called the Painsaw for obvious reasons. It is made to look like a blood-spattered chainsaw from Doom, but it’s more than just a prop. It actually plays the classic science fiction horror FPS.

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It was made by a modder going by the moniker scar45, who used a Pi Zero microcontroller and a toy chainsaw. And a lot of paint for blood. The system features a 4400mAh Li-Ion battery, an Adafruit PowerBoost 1000 Charger, Raspberry Pi Zero and more. A 2.2” TFT LCD displays the game, and you can attach a keyboard or use any Xbox 360 controller.

The video looks like a grainy VHS tape and is timestamped Dec. 10, 1993, the day that the Doom was originally released. Wow, has it been that long already? It is truly a mod of doom.

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[via Damn Geeky via Neatorama]