Drawing machine

Today we broke up our groups and made new ones for our brief which was to make a drawing machine using the NXT robot program. The idea for our one is that on each of the isosceles triangle flaps we're going to put on a little paint pot and have the flaps strung to a pulley system.
That way we can program each side to tilt accordingly so that the paint pours out and runs across the base into a beautiful waterfall of paint off the corners of the base to give you a SECOND drawing underneath the suspended triangle. So you get two drawings from this. One on the base and one on a giant piece of paper underneath. There are more details explained further in my journal.


This is a mini cardboard mock up. We've allocated each member a specific role. I'm going to experiment with different paints and inks.


This is a diagram with the dimensions of our paint pyramid.

I think we're progressing pretty well. We got our basic idea quickly. Now we gotta do some research and experimenting then come back to the idea and develop it accordingly and develop it more later to fit perfectly with the programming. I think the reason we're starting off well today is because we decided things quickly and started work on it straight away. It would be ideal if we could have all experimenting finished by tomorrow then how the paint pyramid built by Tuesday. That would leave Wednesday and Thursday to refine the programming since we'll be programming simultaneously and then adjusting it to suit the situation.