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Work · October 29, 2015

BB-8 Droid made out of a Pumpkin

The new BB-8 robot from Star Wars came to life today in the form of apumpkin. This happy little guy was created as my team’s entry in HERPDERP 2, an interna...

BB-8 Droid made out of a Pumpkin launched on October 29, 2015 with 7 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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The new BB-8 robot from Star Wars came to life today in the form of a pumpkin. This happy little guy was created as my team’s entry in HERP DERP 2, an internal pumpkin carving hackathon at Enova. About a month ago I received an email from the CTO of my company with the subject HERP DERP 2: Rise of the Machines . The email opened with: Recently a book came into my possession, a truly mysterious book. Bound in fog and written in whispers, it tells of the first Enova Halloween event known as “HERP DERP” and prophesied its return. In words both strange and familiar, it said that when the sun had passed its zenith on the twenty second day of the tenth month, gourds augmented with electronics and…from nathantornquist.com

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