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Daaaaaw: Guy Builds His Own Functioning Pixar Lamp

November 30, 2012 / animated, animatronics, awwww lampy you're my only friend!, but can it talk? i need it to talk so i feel less alone, deluxe, desk, desk candy, dope, FRIIIIIIIDAY, in real life, irl, lamp, make me one!, pixar, real life, that would look SO GOOD ON MY DESK RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD I THINK I'M HAVING AN EPISODE, want, yes please

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This is a video demonstration of Lamp (aka Pinokio), an interactive desk lamp fitted with six servos, a webcam and some custom Arduino software that resembles the Pixar lamp. He'll look around for you, follow your face, beg for attention, pay attention so sounds, and even turn himself back on if you try to flip his switch. The only thing he doesn't do is hop around. "I want one." Ha, I knew you were going to say that. In fact I was so confident you were going to say that I wrote those exact words on a card and sealed it in this envelope. Open it if you don't believe me. "It says, 'I'm sorry I called your cat ugly.'" Okaaaaay, wrong envelope -- try this one. "Sorry I pooped on your couch." Dammit, well it's one of these.

Hit the jump for the video.

Thanks to Richard, who claims he built a real life replica of the old man from Up. Richard? It's obvious that's a real old man -- let him go home.

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There are Comments
  • McfeelySmackup

    Funny how it looks EXACTLY like low quality stop motion animation, and nothing at all like a servo motor controlled...well, anything.

  • Sigmund Smudge

    This is stop motion animation. I don't believe this crap for a second.

  • Guest

    So how do you turn off that thing?

  • Not to be racist, but Luxo is white...

  • JimmyThr

    Oh great, Cops are gonna love this thing.

  • Oh great, a lamp that does not light up. If it could give a reading light, too, it would be cool. But this way it is just a robot that LOOKS like a lamp. In my book a lamp needs to give light!

  • colin twigg

    Lighten up (see what I did there) , it's still pretty cool :)

  • NoveltyFishHead

    That's cute, it immediately reminds me of a monkeh or parrot since they're silly animals with similar mannerisms. X3

  • Pretty cool, but it doesn't hop.

  • But can it play with a ball?

  • its like a pixar lamp with seizures

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