#Shotbot arduino build mod#
I used regular acrylic paint which I thinned with two parts medium, like mod podge. At this point it was time for me to don the beret. I then pressed the button to send the image to the robot.Īfter the robot did its thing I was left with a black and white image. To hone in the position I made the robot move in a bounding box formation and tweaked the image location until it was exactly where I wanted it. Here I loaded a black and white image I created in photoshop, before positioning it approximately where my canvas was located on the robot.
#Shotbot arduino build software#
I then connected the robot over USB to the control software running on my computer. I then hung the draw head and belts onto the stepper motors at the corners of the robot frame, and centered the draw head, with a permanent marker attached, in its home position. To use the robot for art I clamped a blank canvas onto the robot frame. As a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine what a video with 30 pictures a second can do. I have gathered all files I developed and produced in this Github repo to have a single source for all files in their latest iteration and update.įirst of all I recommend you watch the video to see the robot in action and how it was set up to create art. There are a lot of different files needed to complete this project like 3D files, microcontroller code, PCB designs, and a GUI computer program. The goal of this project was to explore and solve the many expected and unexpected problems along the way. But my goal with this project was not to finish the robot as quick as I could. If I used the designs and code already available the project sure could have been finished a lot faster. However I deliberately stayed away from looking at similar designs as the goal of this project was to explore and solve the many expected and unexpected problems along the way. The configuration of this kind of plotter design has many names and there already exists a lot of similar designs, some of which are probably a lot better than the one I made.
#Shotbot arduino build how to#
Read on to see how I ended up putting this art robot together, so you may learn how to make your very own. After all, one of his many famous quotes was: "I want to be a machine". I might be severely overstepping, but I like to imagine he would be proud of a robot making art in the style he helped popularize. This inspired his own art work both in subjects, like Coke bottles, Marilyn Monroe, Campbell Soup cans, and in method - as he used silk screen printing to be able to churn out paintings and art work in his studio The Factory.
Warhol was among other things fascinated by commoditization and mass production. Both the art style and ethos of the project was inspired by the great pop art artist Andy Warhol.
The whole concept is to illustrate how we as humans can work together and collaborate with machines and robots to create something new. In this project I'm showing you how I made my own art robot.
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