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The Styrobot Wants to Rule Your Cups and Packaging
Posted by Mark Wilson at 10:45 PM on September 3, 2008
There's really nothing great that can be done with Styrofoam other than not produce it in the first place, but in lieu of recycling it or throwing it away, one man and his son, inspired by this artwork, took 5 years worth of Styrofoam packaging and did the next most logical thing—built a giant robot.
Assembled from 5 main pieces sliced with a foam cutter and held together with silicon seal, the limbs fit the torso as if they're sitting on a shelf (requiring no additional adhesive for easy assembly/disassembly). Also of note: this styrobot only weighs nine kilos. Just don't tell the neighbours, because they sorta think he's real. [KK via MAKE]
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OMG! Ponies!
Posted 11:10 PM 3/9/08
@strider_mt2k: Is that why styrofoam doesn't break down. Because, like Arnie, it cannot self-destruct.
I never thought I'd say this - for the sake of the planet, we need Edward Furlong.
OMG! Ponies!
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 11:09 PM 3/9/08
@Keebler: And then your cat will attack it, leaving little pellets all over your living room rug.
OMG! Ponies!
strider_mt2k
Posted 11:08 PM 3/9/08
I like at the end of the movie when it gets lowered into that big vat of nail polish remover and does a thumbs up as it goes under.
Awesome.
strider_mt2k
lldsandsll
Posted 11:05 PM 3/9/08
@Keebler: be original, build a giant, um, styrofoam packaging thingy
lldsandsll
Keebler
Posted 11:04 PM 3/9/08
I've got about 80 pieces of large EPP (expanded polypropylene, stryofoam is EPstyrene) in my garage just waiting to do something like this... I'm inspired :D
Keebler
lldsandsll
Posted 11:03 PM 3/9/08
oh man, napalm wet dream. get the can of gas!
lldsandsll
designguybrown
Posted 11:03 PM 3/9/08
"...'styrofoam' should never have been made..." - blasphemy.
How will future cultures know our innermost dreams and passions other than by seeing old big mac packages; computer box spacers; and floaty, pool recliner chairs. Let us elevate the humble foam to 'Lego' status...
designguybrown
robpruitt
Posted 10:56 PM 3/9/08
If companies could make components of their packaging lego together into giant robots it would be pretty sweet.
robpruitt
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 10:50 PM 3/9/08
The McDLT 5000 will SLAUGHTER Captain Planet!
OMG! Ponies!
Holyelephant
Posted 11:35 PM 3/9/08
Pshhh,
This guy makes them bigger. Apparently he is making one for the gallery at my university this year.
Holyelephant
LoganSix
Posted 11:41 PM 3/9/08
I can kill you with this cup. I will smash it into you until the little beads impale into your blood stream causing you to clot and die of a heart attack!!
Death by styrofoam it shall be!!
LoganSix
judacris
Posted 11:40 PM 3/9/08
Wind is it's one Weakness. (perhaps)
judacris
chaoslink
Posted 12:47 AM 4/9/08
Now they just need to arm it with Nerf weaponry (wait, is Nerf still around? God, I'm getting old...)
chaoslink
Git Em SteveDave is starlost
Posted 1:11 AM 4/9/08
@lldsandsll: My first thought as well.
Git Em SteveDave is starlost
Rabid Penguin
Posted 1:02 AM 4/9/08
Polystyrene Foam, it's white gold. And the best thing is, they pay you by the pound.
Rabid Penguin
SigmundTheSeaMonster
Posted 1:00 AM 4/9/08
Oh, you MacFanboys take note: I see MacBookPro packaging there...(ie his chest plate)
SigmundTheSeaMonster
SigmundTheSeaMonster
Posted 12:58 AM 4/9/08
My acetone squirtgun will make ... nothing of you! Poof!
SigmundTheSeaMonster
Enochrewt
Posted 1:44 AM 4/9/08
@Git Em SteveDave is starlost:
As was mine. It's ok, the kid will be 13 soon, he'll figure it out then.
Enochrewt
zimzombie
Posted 1:42 AM 4/9/08
@Holyelephant: I was going to mention that guy. Same thing, only better, bigger. I saw that piece at a museum in San Jose. It's really that big, and it's really difficult to resist jumping into it to see what would happen.
zimzombie
-AP-
Posted 2:31 AM 4/9/08
@Holyelephant: @zimzombie:
RTFA
-AP-
wjousts
Posted 2:27 AM 4/9/08
This guy labels his own bookshelves? What's up with that? Does he live in a library or something?
wjousts
Git Em SteveDave is starlost
Posted 3:47 AM 4/9/08
@wjousts: Judging by the VCT on the floor, this is on display in either a school, a library, or other "institution of learning". I miss the Dewey Decimal System.
Git Em SteveDave is starlost
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 7:15 AM 4/9/08
Nonsense. Dewey was a fool!
Thanks to his Decimal System, cataloged neatly with these hole-punched index cards, all of the knowledge of the world will soon be mine.
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!
OMG! Ponies!
Obsidian
Posted 7:14 AM 4/9/08
I built Styrofoam robots when I was a kid. I thought that was a mandatory part of growing up, like building forts and catching grasshoppers.
Obsidian
Git Em SteveDave is starlost
Posted 3:30 PM 4/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: Suddenly, for no raisin, he left.
Git Em SteveDave is starlost
wjousts
Posted 11:30 PM 4/9/08
@Git Em SteveDave is starlost: Actually, his website claims this is the robot "in his office". Doesn't say whether or not it's a home office.
wjousts
mjstowe
Posted 8:46 AM 4/9/08
Actually, Styrofoam, and the Styrobot, can be recycled: [www.epspackaging.org] - at least according to the The Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers. You may have heard of their battles against the Empire of People Who Just Throw $hit Away.
mjstowe