Digital paint roller

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July 28th, 2010 4

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”

screaminscott says:

July 28th, 2010 at 7:52 am

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
RocketGuy says:

July 28th, 2010 at 10:24 am

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

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