A modern CNC machine programmed to illustrate historical drawing machines? The concept alone seems custom-made to intrigue and delight meta-loving Internet denizens, but MachineDrawing DrawingMachines ...

“One of our users tried to speed things up by installing a motor,” he writes. “He found that he was less connected to the pattern when the motor produced the drawing. When you crank it by hand you can ...

How does a cricket become an artist? Try placing it in one of Harvey Moon‘s drawing machines where its movements will be tracked by a camera and turned into original works of art. Bugs Draw For Me, ...

Not all of us have CNC machines, laser cutters and 3D printers, and I’ll bet most of us didn’t start out that well equipped. The low-cost drawing machine that [jegatheesan] made for his daughter ...

Machines that create art have caught people’s imagination throughout history. So it’s only natural that one day a machine would exist to draw those very machines. Friends, that day has come. Art and ...

Loving to draw but deathly afraid of pen ink, [Marcel] came up with a little drawing machine made out of Lego that will do it for him. It’s not a very complicated build but it does have several ...

The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

Pop-up book maker and paper engineer Robert Sabuda has teamed up with the Leonardo da Vinci Robot Society to create a build-it-yourself drawing machine that's based on a rumor, that da Vinci's ...

Condition Lab has created a series of machines powered by the movement of the wind to capture fleeting moments of time on paper. The project calls into question the process of drawing and memory, ...

Winner of a Maker Faire Editor’s Choice ribbon, Harvey Moon‘s Drawing Machine takes any black and white JPEG image and transforms it into a robot-drawn work of art. The machine is controlled by custom ...