{"id":6576,"date":"2012-08-01T19:26:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T02:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=6576"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:41:17","slug":"its-alive-egg-bot-xubuntu-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2012\/08\/its-alive-egg-bot-xubuntu-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s alive! Egg-Bot + Xubuntu logo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned previously that the good folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories gave each of the recipients of the O’Reilly Open Source Award this year an Egg-Bot kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In spite of my enthusiasm, it wasn’t until Friday night that I finally carved out some time to begin assembling<\/a> mine:<\/p>\n

\"Constructing<\/a><\/div>\n

…and assembling…<\/p>\n

\"Constructing<\/a><\/div>\n

On Saturday morning I fired up Inkscape, the loaded up the Egg-Bot Extensions<\/a> and hooked it up to my netbook. I was off! …to practicing. My first couple ping pong balls are a bit messy.<\/p>\n

I grabbed (begged) Pasi Lallinaho, the artist for the Xubuntu logo and Xubuntu project lead, away from what surely were actually important tasks<\/em> for the task of creating a line-art version of the logo as an SVG so I could use it with the eggbot. I plotted it on the recommended 800×3200 SVG image, it’s available here: xubuntu-eggbot.svg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve spent time the past couple days working on getting it properly aligned and doing tests on ping pong balls to get a nice demo put together. My first logos were a bit wobbly, getting a circle right took some work.<\/p>\n

\"Xubuntu<\/a><\/div>\n

But tonight I ended up with a pretty good one:<\/p>\n

\"Pretty<\/a><\/div>\n

Video of it being created:<\/p>\n