This one is basically wheels screwed to a platform, with markers duct-taped onto the side pointing down. Here’s a video of it in operation.

You put it on the floor and move it around somehow. Your foot, your hand, a stick, attaching to your dog’s leash? You decide.

Other people make high tech robots that can draw for them with a bunch of software and electronics.

I am experimenting with doing analog low tech human-powered robots instead. You can see some of my other experiments here. This is pretty new, so I’m trying to cover a sort of like “base layer” of low hanging fruit or what have you here, as I get up to speed on some of the more mechanical knowledge for more complex machines.

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