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It might be the worst name for a web service in history, buy it’s a pretty darn cool little piece of code. The Rasterbator is a service that allows you to input an image (photo, graphic, illustration, etc…) and it will create a giant new rasterized image from it. “The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.”

Remember those old dot matrix printers? The ones that had the sheets of paper attached via perforation? Print Shop and other programs used to be great at creating banners that would span 10 or 20 sheets of paper. I know that every time someone came home from camp or from a trip, we’d print out a huge “Welcome Home” banner on one of those and hang it outside the garage. Well, this is pretty similar to that.

If you have 4×6 picture that you want to be 2′ by 3′, it’ll spread your picture over 12 or so pieces of paper that you can then staple or glue together. It’s perfect for creating a poster of that map that you only have a small image of and the school won’t buy you the full size version of. Or for creating your own poster of the vocabulary for the week. Perhaps you might want to print out in wall size the KWL that you created in Inspiration. I’m sure every teacher can think of a few uses for such a tool. There’s a standalone version that you can download or you can always use the web based version.

All I ask is that when your IT guy starts breathing down your neck for printing 300 pages on the color laser printer so you can cover your ceiling with a larger than life image of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, don’t come running to me!

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