Here’s a pretty cool project done with the Lego NXT system. It’s a robot that will draw you a picture. Yes, we know it could be done cnc style, but this is much more fun. You load a picture into the software, adjust the levels so the software can create the vector version more easily, then let it rip. Now they need to add face recognition.
Cool, reminds me of seeing a GE Fanuc robot about 10 feet high that weighed a few tons drawing a picture of it’s self with a sharpie. The engineers where I worked set it up for a demo.
Posted at 3:23 pm on May 6th, 2009 by Clay
Neat stuff, it’s a pretty well done system, espically for the amount of detail it can perform.
It’s easy to look at the NXT platform as see it as a childs toy but it is capable of doing some amazing things.
Which firmware was used to do it though, Lego’s (doubt it) or maybe like lejos?
Posted at 6:11 pm on May 6th, 2009 by #yls#
Wow technic lego has come on a looong way since i messed around with the pnumatic digger!
Posted at 12:32 am on May 7th, 2009 by grovenstien
love it!
Posted at 2:33 am on May 7th, 2009 by liebesiech
shame it uses MATLAB and not a free alternative.
saying that, whoot for matlab – its an awesome powerful bit of kit.
awesome project
Posted at 5:45 am on May 7th, 2009 by steaky
Now just write a program that takes a completely random flickr photo with high contrast, and have it draw it out, then move the piece of paper off to the side with a stack of paper under it so a few minutes later, it can start the next photo.
Would be kinda cool (and creepy) so come back home from work and be able to look through 10 or 20 pictures that your legos (re)created. lol
Posted at 6:49 am on May 7th, 2009 by Phimp
for a drawing robot, 1774 style, see the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jaquet-droz_automata (cf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd_21_pfsro at about 0:34 for the “artist”)
Posted at 2:46 pm on May 13th, 2009 by dave
Like most Architects, I blame lego for starting my fascination with building. This is payback, I want an army of these lego draftsmen in my studio.
Outstanding.
Posted at 1:40 pm on Jun 4th, 2009 by Architect in Edinburgh
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oh god the robot overlords have learned how to create art
Posted at 2:29 pm on May 6th, 2009 by cyanide