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 ...

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 ...

Stepper motors are great for projects that require accurate control of motion. 3D printers, CNC machines and plotters are often built using these useful devices. [InventorArtist] built a stepper-based ...

sheet metal drawing wire, bar, and tube drawing. Sheet metal drawbenches and drawing machines involve plastic deformation over a curved axis. The flow and stretch of material is necessary for ...

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 ...

Here’s a computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine creating ink drawings of 12 historical drawing machines—from Albrecht Dürer’s “Dürer’s Door” (1525) to Sir Robert Hooke’s Portable “Picture Box” ...

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 ...