WaterColorBot Expresses Itself Using Watercolor

WaterColorBot Expresses Itself Using WatercolorAh, we certainly have seen the fair progression of robot technology over the years, haven’t we? In fact, it was just late yesterday evening when we talked about how the Veebot would come in handy in drawing blood from your with a far higher accuracy rate than that of a human should it make its way to hospitals eventually. Now here is a robot that dabbles more of the opposite of science, which is obviously the realm of art.

Sylvia Todd, a 12-year-old who happens to have this particular passion for robots, has come up with a robot that she has named as the WaterColorBot. The WaterColorBot happens to resemble a 3D printer from certain angles, and just as its name implies, it is capable of churning out artwork that uses watercolor paint, hence its namesake. It works this way – you hook up the WaterColorBot to your computer via USB, load the RoboPaint software, and the WaterColorBot will then “paint” whatever that you create from the software’s canvas itself. I guess there is no Ctrl-Z to get out of a messy spot here, is there?

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Young Mad Scientist Super Awesome Sylvia Is Kickstarting A Robotic Watercolor Set

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A 12-year-old maker named Super Awesome Sylvia (she is quite super awesome) is looking for $50,000 to build a robotic watercolor set, the WaterColorBot, that can draw nearly anything you design in a computer paint program. Asking why you don’t just take brush to paint pot with your hand is irrelevant — this, friends, is a robotic watercolor plotter. ‘Nuff said.

Sylvia is working with Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories to build the kits, and a pledge of $275 gets you a WaterColorBot that acts just like an old-fashioned chart plotter. It is nearly complete and EMSL writes:

To put the kit together, you’ll need small and medium philips-head screwdrivers, and a sharp pair of scissors. Pre-teen and younger kids will need adult help to put it together and get started using it.

The system “paints” vector-based files in SVG format, so you’ll need to find applicable pictures that can be easily resized. However, it shouldn’t be a problem to mass-produce your notes to Grandma or that wonderful vector graphic of your pet cat.

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Sylvia’s WaterColorBot takes to Kickstarter for the usual reason (video)

Sylvia's WaterColorBot takes to Kickstarter for the usual reason video

Fresh from impressing President Obama, Bill Nye and LeVar Burton, WaterColorBot — sorry, Super Awesome Sylvia’s WaterColorBot — is ready for prime time. The makers are taking to Kickstarter in order to sell the robot, which transfers vector art and trackpad daubs to paper without the mess of doing it yourself. The team needs to scrounge together $50,000, and a pledge of $295 will get you an unassembled, DIY kit. If you want to see the unit in action (hosted by Super Awesome Sylvia herself) then head past the break.

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