November 2009 Archives

The hand held scanners at work look a bit like this:


They come packed in a plastic pack that looks like this:


Someone gave me one of these packs to "make a transparent gun or something". I had other ideas and it ended up like this:


Newclay shell, buttons, and tentacle monster, glued to a hardboard base. The keypad surroundings are from a real sticker from a real scanner. The screen was made from the plastic pack, the scanner body was made using the plastic pack as a mould. The slime on the monster is Araldite.

Food was going missing from the fridge at work, people were leaving the door open, things were being moved around, annoyed notes were being left on noticeboards, and it was all getting a bit ugly.

So here's the helpful poster I slapped together to inflame / solve the problem.