Sunday, November 27, 2005

Sunday, November 27, 2005
08:33 PM
mmmmm robots

Transformers costumes that turn into cars and jets: "Cory Doctorow:

Mark of Marksprojects has built a series of working Transformers costumes. They can transform from robots to cars/jets while you wear them. No build-logs but he sells the transformable versions for nearly four grand (!). Someone needs to deliver a set of open source plans for these!
Link
(Thanks, Marsolais!)


Update: To clarify -- There's an audience for these things who will pay $3,750 for this. They're cash-rich and time-poor. There's another audience who will never pay $3,750 for one of these, but might happily spend a year putting one together in their basements: time-rich and cash-poor. The time-rich people would likely never avail themselves of a set of plans for this, so a set of open plans would not displace sales of the costumes, but it would encourage a generation of cardboard hackers who'll go on to deliver new and better costumes in years to come -- it's the best of both worlds.

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(Via Boing Boing.)

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