From Dan Macnish’s project “Draw This”. Photo by Joanne Lee
With Dan Macnish’s “Draw This” you can create an instant print ‘camera’ that generates cartoons of the world around you. The sketches are created using a TensorFlow detection model trained on the Google Quick Draw data set.
One of the fun things about this re-imagined camera is that you never get to see the original image. You point, and shoot – and out pops a cartoon; the camera’s best interpretation of what it saw. The result is always a surprise. A food selfie of a healthy salad might turn into a enormous hotdog, or a photo with friends might be photobombed by a goat.
“Draw This” was originally posted in 2018 with a for web version popping up on Kapwing soon after. The web version creates sketches out of images uploaded to Kapwing’s website. Cartoonify seems to do fairly well with people but definitely takes some artistic license with buildings and landscapes. In the example below, you can see a ruin depicted as a cartoon truck! If you’d like to create your own “Draw This” camera, take a look at Dan Macnish’s blog post or Cartoonify on GitHub.
Left: Sinking ruin of the Haitian Sans-Souci Palace on display along the High Line in NYC Photo by Rebecca Minich. Right: Resulting Cartoonify drawing from Kapwing.
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
Python for Microcontrollers — Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: MicroPython Pico W Bluetooth, CircuitPython 8.0.4 and much more! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @ThePSF @Raspberry_Pi
