[NetBehaviour] Hacked milling machine spreads graffiti poetry around town.

[Rob Myers]

On 04/02/14 09:03 AM, marc garrett wrote:
> Hacked milling machine spreads graffiti poetry around town.
> 
> We tend to think of graffiti as being a semi-permanent mark left by an
> unauthorized artist, but Dutch sand writing artist Gijs van Bon wants
> his work to be ephemeral, so he designed a machine that he calls Skryf
> that writes on the sidewalk using sand.
> 
> Skryf started life as a CNC milling machine used for woodworking, but
> Van Bon hacked it so that instead of cutting wood, it lays down a thin
> line of fine white sand as it goes. The computer controlled cutting head
> now holds the sand dispenser, and moves so that the letters are laid
> down as neatly as any typewriter.

This relates to chalk, bleach, and moss graffiti I think. :-) I'm not
sure how sand relates to legal defences of impermanence or cleaning,
maybe it would be considered littering...

- Rob.