>Bob Mottram wrote: > I have thought about making a robotic artist in the distant past. Some of the first robots which I remember seeing in the 1980s used the LOGO language to produce sketches using different coloured pens. You could maybe do something similar to that, with a mouse-like body and a few differently coloured pens mounted on servos (there is plenty of scope on the Qwerk to add multiple servos). Alternatively you could build something more like a manipulator arm, and attach pens as if they were fingers on separate servos.
>Ben wrote: > I like the idea of different fingers having different magic markers on the tips of them ;-) Wow, that sounds like a great idea, guys, thanks for bringing it up! One thing, though, I probably wouldn't want to integrate the pens or whatever into the device, since pens dry out and are consumable. I'd prefer a general manipulator. Also, having them all at once seems like it's only about making it faster, but computers and robots are things with inifinite patience, so I would guess one color at a time should not be a problem for them, though of course, I'm sure they could handle all them at once. And all this, too, is reminiscent of the various automatic fabrication robots that have been popping up, with plastic deposition and stuff. None of those integrate vision systems, though, which you might use in a general robot. It might be nice also to have a robot that could handle drills and saws, and other machining tools, for a really "productive" system. But that's what industrial robots do, I guess. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
