Apparently this machine can triforce.Frankensteinway - Zelda Theme - YouTube | |
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So came up with a new use for my portable drawing machine: the scariest player piano ever. I laser cut strikers for the kids piano so that I could hit the keys sideways rather than vertical, made a quick map of the XY coordinates for each key and then wrote a script in Processing to pass G-code to the machine over serial. Tada, wrecking ball player pianoFrankensteinway - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - YouTube | |
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The workflow for this couldn't be easier. My partner in crime Janet Mader whipped up a score in MuseScore 2, which was then outputted as a MIDI. We ran this through an online MIDI to RTTL converter. The resulting ringtone text file was then run through a Processing sketch to convert the RTTL to gCode with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Run this on the machine and tada, music. So to sum up: Score - MIDI - RTTL - gCode - linuxCNC. Simple.Frankensteinway - Carol of the Bells - YouTube | |
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I finally bit the bullet and got vector plotting programed into drawing machine. I ended up using the Geomerative processing library to load and convert an SVG, it has a polygonize function that makes it fairly easy. Each segments start and end points were converted to polar coordinates and sent to the machine. At larger length segments I do get a step pattern as one axis moves faster than the other, but I can get around this by making the steps really tiny and waiting till both axis have hit their target, any remaining jitter is mostly covered up by the bleed from the felt marker. If I switch to a ball point I can make the line segments as small as a tenth of a millimeter. Draw order is controlled by the layer order of the SVG in Illustrator. I still have to work out how to make one end of the line a start, as a few of the words are drawn backwards in this test. Oh, if you haven't guessed it, the formulas are for the conversion between cartesian to polar coordinates and back again.Polar Drawing Machine - Vector Plotting test. - YouTube | |
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This is a cable driven drawing machine I constructed for the Telus Spark Science Centre in Calgary, Alberta. More information and construction details are on my blog at: http://dbynoe.blogspot.ca/2013/12/fou... Each of the four stepper motors is connected to a pulley and string. By winding in or letting out string on each corner the computer can position the draw head anywhere in three dimensional space, or at least within its work envelope of roughly 590x590x220mm. The machine is controlled with LinuxCNC using a custom kinematics module and python script written by Kevin Loney http://www.brainsinjars.com. Its input files are standard g-code, the same format used for controlling a CNC mill, all the weird coordinate transformation math is handled by the kinematics wrapper. Accuracy is pretty good, theoretically it can position itself to about 0.1mm, this breaks down near the edges of the draw area as the cables sag, leverage, and a variety of other interesting physics effects take hold. A big thanks to everyone at Calgary Protospace http://www.protospace.ca for all the help. Go visit and support your local hacker and maker spaces, they are awesome.Four Cable Drawing Machine - YouTube | |
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