Robot Archaeology: Drawing Robots #Robots

May 22, 2018 AT 3:45 pm

Robot Archaeology: Drawing Robots #Robots

In previous Robot Archaeology articles, we’ve found the origins of the original Turtle robot and Logo back from MIT around 1970. There have been a number of drawbots since. This article focuses on fairly current bots.

A drawing robot is one that uses a pen and possibly wheels to move and draw things. This can be simple or very complex:

We’ve looked around the Interwebs and found these drawbots:

The CheapDrawBot
The Hi 2016
The TRS Drawbot
The Robot Arm (with Arduin0)
Plot Drawing Machine from Tinkercrate
Time Plotting Robots: with Marker, Sand, and Laser
Build a turtlebot
Spirograph Robot
Disney Beach Robot
Sparki robot with gripper
Mirobot on Kickstarter
MURtle (turtlebot)
PenBot 1.2
The Root drawbot

The new Adafruit CRICKIT robotics platform can help build creative robotics including drawbots.

Do you have some ideas on Drawbots? Post in the comments!

Make a robot friend with Adafruit’s CRICKIT – A Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It’s an add-on to our popular Circuit Playground Express, FEATHER and other platforms to make and program robots with CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. Start controlling motors, servos, solenoids. You also get signal pins, capacitive touch sensors, a NeoPixel driver and amplified speaker output. It complements & extends your boards so you can still use all the goodies on the microcontroller, now you have a robotics playground as well.