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4-in-1 DrawBot Decorates Walls, Floors, Eggs, More
The mDrawbot is a girder-based construction kit that lets you create a number of different drawbot configurations, from wallbot to eggbot.
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Super Awesome Sylvia’s WaterColorBot on Display
We told you Sylvia of Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show! would participate in an official White House G+ hangout. But what will she demo? The answer is, a project she worked on with Lenore and Windell of EMSL: a robot that can paint with watercolors! The bot is still in beta but you can see it […]
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Earthquake-Actuated Artbot
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/52059936] This bot visualizes earthquakes as splotches of paint, squirting paint color coded to the strength of each quake. Quakescape is a 3D fabricator that works by taking earthquake data from the site GeoNet (www.geonet.org.nz) and transferring it into the medium of art by using paint and Arduino technology. Quakescape creates a transformation of data […]
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Arc-O-Matic, an Arduino-Controlled Art Bot
Pete Prodoehl, inspired by this robot, created an art bot — the Arco-O-Matic — with servos hot glued to dowels, and a clothespin holding the Sharpie. So to make it all work we start by putting an 18″x24″ sheet of paper down with a few pieces of tape, and then insert a Ultra Fine Point […]
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“I am the eggbot, they are the eggbot”
In honor of John Lennon’s birthday, here’s a piece of cool, inexplicable conceptual techno-art that might be right up John and Yoko’s alley. It’s an untitled piece by Christopher Kaczmarek and was shown at last month’s ArtBots show in Dublin. I found it on the Solarbotics site. They gave it a shout out ’cause the […]
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