Digital paint roller

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Digital paint roller
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It’s a prototype called txtBOMBER, by Felix Vorreiter. It has seven solenoid-actuated pens and an Arduino for a brain. [via Dude Craft]

4 thoughts on “Digital paint roller

  1. screaminscott says:

    This is a really cool idea.

    I would be concerned with rough surfaces tearing the tip of paint ‘pens’. I wonder if you could use miniature rollers.

    Spray paint would probably work better. I know someone had made a remote control car with spray paint cans that painted graffiti on the sidewalk.

    Even cooler, I could see this as a kids toy, that just used water to ‘paint’ words temporarily on the sidewalk

  2. RocketGuy says:

    Rather than spray paint, chalk “spray paint” markers are removable.

    Well, mostly removable, some of the chalks out there can be pretty persistent.

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