Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)
35 points by notmine1337 3 days ago | 5 comments
  • Antibabelic 2 months ago |
    This thing is basically a small pen plotter for kids. Would love to see it do a more complicated design.
    • jdboyd 3 days ago |
      You just know the next version will probably get voice recognition and some connection to an LLM to generate line drawings for it too then place on paper.

      I think it would be cool to have a variant built that included some sort of turtle graphic system. Or maybe a voice controlled logo language?

  • dang 3 days ago |
    (Sorry for the offtopicness: this is a re-spawn of notmine1337's earlier post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45925665, which was too old to re-up directly.

    Normally we'd email a repost invite for these (see https://news.ycombinator.com/invited) but I was unable to do that in this case. I hope this is ok!)

  • McAdam 3 days ago |
    super cool teardown
  • ctchocula 3 days ago |
    This reminded me of those booths they have at company holiday parties where they take a photo of you, convert it to a line drawing and have the robot draw it out for you to keep. Very cool hack!