With my robotic arm project, ‘Painting Variables’, I keep getting asked to share videos of the process. I thought it might be fun as a first example to attempt to do an “Aquatic” Paint-by-Numbers. I have been focused on making the brushstrokes more organic which lends itself to “impressionistic-abstract” paintings and definitely not something accurate like paint by numbers.
Of course, not having created a YouTube video in awhile, while I was recording this video my camera ran out of batteries then my 32GB SD card stopped writing because it was full. So I missed recording the robot painting the light blue paint. To save your time, I cut out the section where the robotic arm waits for each layer of paint to dry (~6min), you are actually watching it paint 12x its normal speed! Most paintings on my instagram feed take over 5 hours to paint.
But regardless of my excuses… here is my first video of the robot painting:
I look forward to your questions and comments 🙂
Thanks for watching.
Fascinating. Do you program with a positional grid for placement ?
I use the pixels in the image as my grid. It seems to work out that 1mm = 1 pixel. So my paintings are 150 mm x 150 mm (or 150×150 pixels).
Interesting to watch the robotic arm working .
Thanks Ann for taking the time to check out the project. I am standing beside the robot painting as I type this… it is so much fun to watch. As I work on my entry for the 2018 Robot Art Competition – many videos will be posted by the end of the week.
Thanks for sharing. I love how the arm rinses & wipes the brush. It will be fun to see it painting one of your paintings.
Make a more new posts please 🙂
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Sanny
Thanks Sanny. I am working on it. Thanks for letting me know you value them.