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Cricket-Driven Art Bot

Arduino Craft & Design

Harvey Moon wrote in with an update to his Drawing Machine art bot:

It is titled “Bugs Draw For Me” and it combines my Drawing Machine with some code I wrote that tracks a bug’s movement. Using two custom Processing programs, an Arduino, a camera and a cricket, I was able to make unique artworks completely directed by a cricket in a box.

I’m sure all puns about bugs in the code have been thoroughly explored, alas.

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