Zalophus's DesignHouse

___ Drawing Machine – ProfileBlock™ – Design concept ___ 3D Design Tool: SketchUp Pro4xiDraw is a clone of the famous Axidraw. It’s a plotter to draw. Use an “Arduino Nano” control board and a “Arduino Nano CNC Shield” board. In this video we will build one. We will see the list of components, hardware assembly, wiring harness and the Software part … Up to the Drawing.Using the “Inkscape” vector..

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 ..

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..