Drawing Robot

This Instructable will be about Polar Plotters.There are a lot of different versions to build one, and i just wanna share how i built it.The Software i use is called Makelangelo, and can be downloaded here:http://www.makelangelo.comIf you have further questions or ideas to perfect my design, please feel free to comment :)Watch it draw:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xOvMUoso9oAnd the idea of th..

I designed this project for a 10-hour workshop for ChickTech.org whose goal is to introduce teenage women to STEM topics. The goals for this project were:Easy to build.Easy to program.Did something interesting.Low-cost so participants could take it home and continue to learn.With those goals in mind, here were a couple of the design choices:Arduino compatible for ease of programming.4xAA battery..

This machine, a variation on the hanging-pen plotter is a conspicuous and wilfully naive attempt to break out of the pristine, pixel perfect, colour-corrected space that exists inside our computers. It's a drawing machine, that takes a pen (a human tool) and uses it to draw in a singularly robotic way, with some grand results. It doesn't draw at all like we would (though it could), and we would ..