Mambohead

I was just poking around looking at other drawbots and came across this awesome complete list of drawing robot prior art.

Links:

• Der Kritzler by Alex Weber
• Polargraph by Sandy Noble
  • Polargraph Instructible, Google code wiki, setup guide
  • Flickr set, Vimeo
  • Sandy’s note about enabling drawing of squares
• Printed Polargraph by John Abella
  • John’s printed Polargraph Flickr set
  • John designed a printable gondola and ball-chain-pulley on Thingiverse
  • John used Kit Kraft for ball-chain, Adafruit for steppers and the motor shield³, with aFreeduino
• Printed Krizlerbot Polargraph gondola by Lanthan (on Thingiverse)
• Mambohead aka Darcy Whyte’s drawing robot Mr. Drew Darcy is incredibly prolific and has shared much of his work on his site
• “Ugly Cousin” DrawBot by John Cliff, picture 1, picture 2
• Dealywhopper’s Dr. Scratchy
• Hektor
• Thing-a-day, Day 19: Whiteboard Bot by Matt Mets
  • An awesome comment from LadyAda with a photo of her own whiteboard bot!
• Viktor by Jürg Lehni
• Drawing machine by Harvey Moon (under Multimedia Works) also, here
• Drawbot by AS220 Labs
• Muralizer by Josh Myer
• Drawbot tutorial on Make Magazine by Shawn Wallace
  • Make It Last Newsletter
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #1⁴
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #2
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #3
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #4
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #5
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #6
  • Blog posts about the contest⁵
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #1
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #2
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #3
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #4
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #5
• James Provost’s InternBot
  • James’ InternBot Flickr set
• Bill Rasmussen’s 2e5.com plotter theory
• SADbot by Dustyn Roberts
• Tristan Perich Machine Drawing
  • Tristan’s helpful description of the theory behind the control software
• Matthew Venn’s polargraph energy monitoring
• Doug Kanter’s thoughts on drawing robot tech
• Mark Stephenson’s mention of drawing robot art at ArtEngine ModLab (mention of Mambohead’s drawbot)
• Sailindaze’s posts about his drawing robot, an update on said robot, and his trip to the Maker Faire Detroit
• FlickrHiveMind.net collection of photos tagged with “drawbot”
• Bill French’s drawing robot at FUBAR labs
• This RasterWeb Friday Night DrawBot is a rolling robot that draws logo-esque circles
• Printball by Benjamin Gaulon⁶

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