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Drawing Machine Using Arduino, Processing, a Sharpie, and String
- HardyLeung 15y agoI love it! This is art + algorithm + engineering + craftmanship.
- 0x12 15y agoThe repeat accuracy of such a simple mechanism is absolutely amazing. Never in my life would I have guessed that you could make some many reversals without some accumulating error somewhere.
- reustle 15y agoCheck out the middle of the last picture on the page. It looks like it didn't go up as far as it needed two about twice in the same line, causing a noticeable gap. Not at all trying to knock it here, amazing work for sure, just wanted to point that out. It could be intentional as well.
- wisty 15y agoMost of the motion is in the up and down, which I'd guess is why you get some gaps forming between the "layers", but it still seems to be lined up OK in the angular dimension.
- theIntuitionist 15y agoThis bites pretty hard on hektor, a graffiti robot: http://hektor.ch http://hektor.ch I met the kid who built this, year ago. He is a seriously rad ex-demo scene hacker, now art school prof. Lots of other good projects there worth checking out.
- spot 15y agoand this guy made a painting machine in the 70s: http://www.antonperich.com/ http://www.antonperich.com/ so the idea has been around the block.
- apitaru 15y ago..And many years later, his son Tristan has made a few drawing machines of his own: http://www.tristanperich.com/Art/Machine_Drawings/ http://www.tristanperich.com/Art/Machine_Drawings/
- spot 15y agoyup i know tristan and that's how i met his father.
- theIntuitionist 15y agoAmazing. Thanks for the links!
- jjcm 15y agoI'd love to see a four-pass of this using CMYK colored sharpies. I'm sure it wouldn't line up perfectly, but it might end up better that way.
- tomstuart 15y agoThe Penguin logo on http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/09/custom-polargraph-drawings/ http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/09/custom-polargraph-drawings... is a nice step in this direction.
- nostromo 15y agoBuild or buy your own: http://www.polargraph.co.uk/build-or-buy-a-machine/ http://www.polargraph.co.uk/build-or-buy-a-machine/ Code: http://code.google.com/p/polargraph/ http://code.google.com/p/polargraph/
- LeafStorm 15y agoThe use of polar coordinates is interesting, and it makes the images look a lot more interesting than a simple X/Y. (Probably less mechanical strain too.)
- coderdude 15y agoIf you're into this kind of stuff check out HackerThings (I made it, not for profit): http://hackerthings.com/ http://hackerthings.com/ It's for hardware and electronics hackers (and programmers, of course). A good book on things like this is Programming Interactivity at http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9415 http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9415 (that's the kind of thing you'll find on HT).
- joefreeman 15y agoThere's a brief summary of something vaguely similar I made during my degree here: http://joefreeman.co.uk/blog/2009/09/lineographic-interpretations-of-images-with-an-etch-a-sketch/ http://joefreeman.co.uk/blog/2009/09/lineographic-interpreta... (Lineographic Interpretations of Images, with an Etch-a-sketch)