Drawing Machines (2002-2003)

Drawing Machines

I have been working as a unix system admin for close to 10 years now

much of it on the net where everything is transient, rushed,
insecure, and obsolete before it is finished.

Since I couldnt make welding pay my bills I came to a few conclusions.

1. Computers should be fun and intertesting.
2. When I move a brick sized object somthing should happen.
3. I have a hardware / software degree. I am supposed to know how to do this stuff.

It was either this or a snipercam.

Drawing Machine number 1	A servo based drawing arm
Drawing Machine number 2	An attempt to improve on #1
Drawing Machine #3	Attempt #3 at improvment
Drawing Machine #4	Attempt #4 at improvment
Drawing Machine number 5	Recreating Marvin Green’s entry into Robothon95 “Art ‘Bot” Competition
Drawing Machine number #6	Experimenting with servo control of vibration based movement
Drawing Machine number #7(a-e)	Further experiments in this direction.
Drawing Machine #8(a-c)	Initial forey into pen rovers based on Mindstorms “art-bot”
Drawing Machine number #9	A hacked servo based “pen” computer.
Drawing Machine number #10?	First crack at weighted drawing arm
Drawing Machine number #11	Replacing processor in Dm1 with AVR
Drawing Machine number #12	A better stepper motor based rover.
Drawing Machine number #13	Weighted drawing arm
Drawing Machine #14	Etchy Sketchy

See Also:

• http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/jun97/robothon97.html http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/jun97/robothon97.html
  Robothon 97 results (last year with the robot artist contest)
• http://www.artbots.org http://artbots.org
  If I can make it there I’ll make it any where its up to you….
• http://www.appliedautonomy.com/
  Politicized art along this vain
• http://www.digithink.com/gallery
  My other art.