R2-D2, c. 1921 - Neatorama

Jordan Thomas is an artist who creates amusing and imaginative steampunk robot sculptures. His other works include characters from BioShock, The Wizard of Oz, and WALL-E. My favorite, though, is his R2 unit.

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I have an issue with how the message was printed out....think about it.

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@Randi

My thoughts exactly!
Such a minor detail does ruin it a bit. Too bad, considering the amount of work that has been put into it :/

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What.. you never seen a multiple printhead printer?

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For all you know it's using lens height adjustment and LASERS! for a variable dot pitch print head!

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Unless all steampunk messages start with "end of message"...?

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Just to be clear, this would be an R2D2 made centuries AFTER the original [since the whole "Star Wars" thang happened "a long time ago"].

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Old feed printers are often programmed in such a way - its' nothing unusual. Does this guy do this for fun or does he profit from it in some way?

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Russ is right. Some older printers did use to print "backwards" in a way so that the message was actually readable. In any of those old movies (or even some new ones) where you see something print off and they don't even look at it until it's done, tear it off, then read. It works simply like that.

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