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:
Do you have some ideas on Drawbots? Post in the comments!
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I made a lot of drawing robots:
have a look to Scarabot EVO here
https://github.com/cyberparra/Scarabotevo
EV3 painter
https://youtu.be/F2BxesGc1qk
ScaraOzobot
https://youtu.be/VHx2qBNpCbE
ScaraBot Quirk
https://youtu.be/oPLBOl8kFwU
Robopenna
https://youtu.be/F2BxesGc1qk
Scarabolego
https://youtu.be/nCBaJpN1Urg
Robodisegnatore
https://youtu.be/DFuZSCdx3mA
Sandy&Peter
https://youtu.be/F6lZahAZ024
Scarabot Triciclo
https://youtu.be/soDZvyiS2Ac
& more…
My latest Turtle Robot is completely open source and powered by an Adafruit Trinket Pro: https://github.com/aspro648/OSTR