We have to get over it right up front. This stool costs about $780, which is stupid a lot. But now that it’s out in the open we can move on and admire how cool it is, right? Riiight? More »
One thing that’s great about IKEA furniture is that it’s so cheap that you can feel comfortable hacking it into other forms without fear of damaging your grandma’s prized antique Chippendale. Take, for example, this epic IKEA hack, which transformed a couple of ordinary stools into a functional kid’s bicycle.
With the help of FabShop, Samuel Bernier and Andreas Bhend took parts from a couple of $15 FROSTA birch plywood stools, along with a handful of 3D printed parts, and fabricated a bicycle out of them. While using some 3D printed parts might be looked at as “cheating” by some, I think it just gave their design a minor boost, and the bike still captures the spirit of the original furniture upon which it’s based.
Bernier and Bhend get bonus points for creating a fake IKEA instruction manual to go with their design too. They called the bike the “Draisienne“, named after an antique bicycle, but I would have gone with more of an IKEA friendly name like “BIKKLO” or “KICKLA.”
If you’re interested in building your own IKEA bike, head on over to Instructables for the build details.
[via FastCo Design via Cheezburger]
What genius gave this robot a chainsaw? This industrial robot has been programmed to carve logs into stools. With a chainsaw. Is this really a good idea? Uh, probably not. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre will now become the Robot Chainsaw Massacre. I look forward to it’s endless sequels.
These stools from Germany’s Echtwald get sold to the people who came to watch the robot in action. So you watch this robot cut your stool and then you buy the stool, thanking god that this thing can not follow you home.
It’s almost like blackmail. Here, watch this robot carve up a stool. That could be you getting carved up if we let this thing loose. How about you buy one of these stools now? Yeah, I thought you might need a place to park your butt.
[via Geekologie]
Late last year, we saw a robot take on a man in a game of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots in a cage match to the death, or at least a match until one of the little heads on one of the robots’ heads popped up. Man lost that battle, and I predicted the robot uprising would be happening very soon.
It looks like I might have been a little hasty with my ideas of the upcoming robot uprising starting so soon as another robot has been spotted in Cologne, Germany whose prime objective is to carve out stools. The robot can carve two 7xStools from a single log and with the help of its chainsaw mounted to the end of its arm. We just hope this robot doesn’t suddenly become aware as it’ll probably be way more dangerous than the robot who is really good at Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots.
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