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Bruce Sterling
May 4, 2010 7:16 AM

The Facadeprinter

*Look out, world.

facadeprinter.org - three stones from Facadeprinter on Vimeo.

via @_neural , who aptly remarks:

"The Facadeprinter is a simple robot. Its purpose: printing huge artworks out of its box onto the walls"

http://www.facadeprinter.org/en/index.php

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