WaterColorBot is ready to paint on command.
(Credit: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories)
Some painters are born talented, others are manufactured that way. The WaterColorBot is a painting robot that handles all the brushwork for you. Its creators are raising funds on Kickstarter to offer the kit to the masses.
The bot doesn’t have a creative mind of its own. It can either take vector artwork and paint it, or follow along as you sketch in real time. It uses regular watercolor paints, the kind you probably remember from childhood, and regular paper.
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The WaterColorBot is the brainchild of young maker Sylvia Todd, of Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show fame. She created it to enter the RoboGames competition (where she won silver). Along with Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, Todd decided it was too cool to be a one-off. Hence the Kickstarter campaign.
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