Drawing Machines

The drawing machines project was a ton of fun! My partner and I got our first drawing bot working very fast and had a lot of time to play around with attaching different tools like watercolor/acrylic brushes and experimenting with mediums like marker, watercolor, pencils, and acrylic paint.

When we began making our first bot we just were trying to be as simple as possible so we could concentrate on making sure the battery and motor would run when it was all attached so we wouldn’t have to keep fixing it. Once that was set we just started exploring with what worked or what may give us cool results other then the markers used in the demo. We thought paint would be really fun to try and could be fun for introducing color mixing into a project. While the bot didn’t move as smoothly with the paints it was still a lot of fun and made really pretty marks on the paper. Overall we really were focused on seeing what else could be done with this project to make it more interesting and to build on for future lessons even. I think this would be a really fun and easily expandable project to do with my own students one day.