Graffiti Robot!
October 24th, 2006 by SBGraffitiWriter likes to kick it on the corner with his homies, yo. GraffitiWriter lays down tight beatz by day then sparks up a fatty boombatty blunt with his clique and does it good in the neighborhood, y’all. GraffitiWriter does not let the The Man keep him down.
That is what we think, anyway. Seeing as we are all law abiding citizens here at Suicidebots who would never dream of doing something so un-mannerly as egging a graffiti robot on as it scrawls witty messages on the pavement in front of that one guy’s house, you know, the guy who always tells you meddling kids to get off his lawn…
Anyway, GraffitiWriter is brought to us by the Institute for Applied Autonomy, a coalition of folks who are fighting the good fight and making sure you can be heard by the oppressors of the world (if you want to):
GraffitiWriter is a tele-operated field programable robot which employs a custom built array of spray cans to write linear text messages on the ground at a rate of 15 kilometers per hour. The printing process is similar to that of a dot matrix printer. GraffitiWriter can be deployed in any highly controlled space or public event from a remote location
All of IAA’s projects involve putting activism at your finger tips. As their mission statement states:
The Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) was founded in 1998 as a technological research and development organization dedicated to the cause of individual and collective self-determination. Our mission is to study the forces and structures which affect self-determination and to provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists.
The Institute are also the fine people who are helming the CAE Defense Fund. In May 2004, members of the Critical Art Ensemble were raided in their homes by the FBI on suspicion of bioterrorism. They are still being subject to ongoing investigation at great emotiuonal and physical cost to themsevles and their families. Click the link for more info.
[Thanks Evil Signtist!]
