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American Over-Engineering FTW: The Macpod Gooper Scooper

If you've got a milling machine and some imagination, ketchup spills are no longer a problem

By Rain Noe - March 20, 2015

Jeffrey Nelson runs Maryland-based Macpod LLC, which does software, electronics design and hardware prototyping. It being a small operation--I suspect maybe even a one-man shop--Nelson's got a tilting-column HiTorque Mini Mill in his house. Which means that during a recent snow-in, when Nelson found it "too wet and cold to play outside" and found it "time to make something stupid," he's got the in-house tech to create something a bit more sophisticated than your average craft project:

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Russ Hagan

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Nice development video. If this was a tribute to the original SWITL idea, great - you should reference that. If not, then it's either a "great minds think alike" or a blatant ripoff... hopefully the former.

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Sarah Flieger

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It's a fu little toy, but not really practical

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Angry Bike Wrench

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Anybody who thinks this is silly or frivolous has never cared for a sick dog...

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Joseph Ullman

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Here's another cool example of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlHGhKHIdMnbsp;

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I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.