Space Invaders cutting board

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 4, 2008 11:53 AM | permalink

LiveJournaller Capt. Sideburns has posted the results of his experiments in making a Space Invaders pixel-art cutting board -- it worked superbly, as you can see. He's promising Zelda next. Link

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#1 posted by M , March 4, 2008 12:54 PM

That goes really well with my Mario-themed stuff. I think I;m into this my blog will eventually turn out to be a shrine of cool stuff retro. Check out the mario madness:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/mario-retrocool/#more-478

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#2 posted by M , March 4, 2008 12:54 PM

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#3 posted by M , March 4, 2008 12:56 PM

Sorry, correct link here:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/mario-retrocool/

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#4 posted by yankeeknowhow , March 4, 2008 1:20 PM

Too bad this pristine and unique chopping board will have to be ruined with knife marks - or is it simply ART, in other words not to be used(?)

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#5 posted by Knife Knut , March 4, 2008 1:25 PM

I would be worried that the Walnut and Maple would expand and contract differently and the thing would self destruct.

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#6 posted by Captn_Sideburns , March 4, 2008 2:05 PM

Holy Crap I'm on BoingBoing!!!!1

I was worried about the expansion and contraction as well, but I did a great deal of research on this, and was assured by the Internets that it would not be a problem. So far it has been just fine. Granted I only finished this thing last week, but I have washed and dried it, and it did not warp or crack or anything. Only time will tell, but I also applied liberal coats of mineral oil to the entire thing to help regulate moisture. As far as knife marks go, They don't tend to show up as much on an end-grain design like this as they would on edge grain, but they will still be there.

I seriously can't believe this is on here...I just left work to come and comment on this.

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#7 posted by Thorzdad

, March 4, 2008 2:26 PM

Okay...I am in serious need of a new cutting board and that thing would completely rock my kitchen.

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#8 posted by Rajio , March 4, 2008 2:37 PM

@#4 yankeeknowhow

"Nothing useless is truly beautiful" - William Morris

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#9 posted by Rajio , March 4, 2008 2:38 PM

Oh, and it also would be even better if it was inverted such that it was a light charater on a dark background a la the actual game.

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#10 posted by akbar56 , March 4, 2008 3:07 PM

@Knife Knut

Well, I have been making custom cutting boards like this for years with various pieces of walnut and maple and have never had any complaints of warping or breaking.

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#11 posted by lotek , March 4, 2008 3:15 PM

the walnut/maple mix shouldn't be a problem, but the places where the grain is oriented perpendicular to the piece next to it (over the right eye for example) might eventually cause the glue line to split.

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#12 posted by Captn_Sideburns , March 4, 2008 4:14 PM

#7 (and anyone else, really)

If you really do want one of these, I can definitely make one for you and ship it to you. Contact me at cameron at 1337motif dot com

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#13 posted by arkizzle , March 4, 2008 4:25 PM

1337motif?

that's a nice name.

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#14 posted by Captn_Sideburns , March 4, 2008 4:39 PM

Thanks. I was pretty psyched that it hadn't been taken.

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