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Drawingmachine by Eske Rex
(click images for detail) The Drawingmachine is a mechanism by Copenhagen-based artist and designer Eske Rex that will be on display at MINDCRAFT 11 in Milan starting next week. The device is...
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Sandy Noble’s Polargraph Drawing Machine
I was checking out some photos emerging from this weekend’s Interesting 2011 conference held in London (there was a world record attempt at ping pong ball mouse trap nuclear fission, among other...
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Jesse Houlding’s Magnetic Drawing Machines
Loop Drawing Machine The Ferrous Wheel Over the past several years Oakland-based artist Jesse Houlding has created a variety of incredible kinetic drawing devices using magnets and iron fillings. As a...
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Numerically Controlled Sharpie Drawings
These lovely sharpie drawings are a collaboration between Matt W. More (previously) and aarn who turned Matt’s vector drawings into machine language and then fed the instructions to a 3-axis CNC...
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Time Print Machine
The Time Print Machine by designer Paul Ferragut uses standard felt-tip pens mounted to a device controlled by custom hardware using openFrameworks to draw pointilist representations of images. The...
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3D Drawing Machine
Vision is a rather unique 3D drawing device created by twins Ryan & Trevor Oakes, allowing almost anyone to draw images in perfect perspective using nothing but your eyes and a pen. The device...
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Custom Polargraph Drawings
Mechanical drawing madman Sandy Noble (previously) continues to crank out great polargraph drawings, but has taken the artform in two new directions. First you can now order customized polargraph...
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A Drawing Machine that Records the Chaos of Pinball
From the pendulum-based drawing machine by Eske Rex to the art of Tim Knowles who attaches writing implements to trees, I love when the seemingly random lines of chaos (or maybe just physics) are...
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Trace What You See: The NeoLucida is the First Portable Camera Lucida to be...
Years before the first photographic print and two centuries before Google Glass, was the Camera Lucida, a clever optical device designed by Sir William Hyde Wollaston that utilized a prism to project...
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Crank Out Infinite Geometric Designs With The Wooden Cycloid Drawing Machine
Cycloid Drawing Machine, all images provided by LEAFpdx Looking more like a vintage turn table than drawing device, the Cycloid Drawing Machine is inspired by drawing machines from the late 19th and...
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Draw Infinite Geometric Designs With the DuoGraph, a Compact New Drawing...
The DuoGraph is the latest drawing machine from inventor and designer Joe Freedman whose Cycloid Drawing Machine took the internet by storm a few months ago. His elaborate devices are capable of...
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A Life-Size Graphite Skeleton that Vibrates to Draw Itself into Nothingness
All images by Luke Abiol Unlike the human body which is composed of only 18% carbon, Agelio Batle‘s latest project is produced from 100% of the semimetal material. The work, titled Ash Dancer, is a...
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The New ‘NeoLucida XL’ Camera Lucida Makes it Easier to Trace What You See
Artist and SAIC professor Pablo Garcia (previously) has added an update to his previous take on the two century old Camera Lucida, an optical device that allows you to trace images and scenes directly...
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A Drawing Machine that Records the Chaos of Pinball
From the pendulum-based drawing machine by Eske Rex to the art of Tim Knowles who attaches writing implements to trees, I love when the seemingly random lines of chaos (or maybe just physics) are...
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The NeoLucida is the First Portable Camera Lucida to be Manufactured in...
Years before the first photographic print and two centuries before Google Glass, was the Camera Lucida, a clever optical device designed by Sir William Hyde Wollaston that utilized a prism to project...
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Crank Out Infinite Geometric Designs With The Wooden Cycloid Drawing Machine
Cycloid Drawing Machine, all images provided by LEAFpdx Looking more like a vintage turn table than drawing device, the Cycloid Drawing Machine is inspired by drawing machines from the late 19th and...
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Draw Infinite Geometric Designs With the DuoGraph, a Compact New Drawing...
The DuoGraph is the latest drawing machine from inventor and designer Joe Freedman whose Cycloid Drawing Machine took the internet by storm a few months ago. His elaborate devices are capable of...
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A Life-Size Graphite Skeleton that Vibrates to Draw Itself into Nothingness
All images by Luke Abiol Unlike the human body which is composed of only 18% carbon, Agelio Batle‘s latest project is produced from 100% of the semimetal material. The work, titled Ash Dancer, is a...
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The New ‘NeoLucida XL’ Camera Lucida Makes it Easier to Trace What You See
Artist and SAIC professor Pablo Garcia (previously) has added an update to his previous take on the two century old Camera Lucida, an optical device that allows you to trace images and scenes directly...
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Complex Moiré Patterns Created by Mechanical Drawings Machines by James Nolan...
A post shared by James Nolan Gandy (@gandyworks) on Feb 7, 2018 at 6:34pm PST Artist and metalworker James Nolan Gandy creates elaborate drawing machines that easily put your childhood spirograph to...
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