Soliciting interest/collaboration/help/etc in an open Anthropomorphic Drawbot project.

[Ed Burton]

Howdy Hackspace,

I'm embarking on a project http://Opendrawer.org to develop an
affordable open-source hardware+software robotic platform for
investigating simulated drawing behavior. Opendrawer focuses on a
distinctively anthropomorphic approach to drawing: Actuated by elastic
antagonistic muscle pairs such a robot will, like a child, rely
extensively on visual and kinaesthetic feedback between eye, arm,
drawing and subject to dynamically self-organize embodied drawing
behaviors. There's some theoretical depth behind the motivation of the
project dating back to work on simulating children's drawing behavior
that I was doing in the 90's (
http://web.archive.org/web/20030624231545/www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/CEA/External/Researchers/Ed/Work/ArtInn/artInn.html
). I come from a creative programming background (I later made
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor amongst other things)
and am getting into robotics for the first time with this project. As
a newcomer to electronics and robotics any collaborators or just
helpful pointers to get me up and running in the workshop would be
very welcome indeed.

Cheers,

Ed
http://edburton.net

[Martin Dittus]

Sodaplay! Legendary.

Welcome to our community. I can't help you with your project, but I'm sure many others will be available.

m.

[Monty]

Hi,

It will probably be worth adding this to either http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/JobBoard or http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/NonCommercial depending on your job. It may also be worth checking out http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/AvailableForContracting and http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/SkillSwap

Monty

[Martin Dittus]

And if you haven't done it yet: come by on a Tuesday night and get a tour.

http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Weekly_meetings

m.

[Adrian Godwin]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Ed Burton <e...@edburton.net> wrote:
> and am getting into robotics for the first time with this project. As
> a newcomer to electronics and robotics any collaborators or just
> helpful pointers to get me up and running in the workshop would be
> very welcome indeed.
>

I'm interested in collaborating.

I've done / am doing some work with compliant actuators such as Festo
air muscles and Jerry Pratt's elastic actuators.


http://www.festo.com/cms/en-us_us/5030.htm
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-air-muscles!/
http://yobotics.com/actuators/actuators.htm

-adrian

[Ed Burton]

Many thanks for the warm welcome. I've been on a Tuesday night tour
and am dropping into the space in the afternoon every so often. I'm
jolly easy to spot thanks to being rather tall with an unusually long
red beard. Do come and say hello if you'd like to help get http://Opendrawer.org
up and running in the workshop. I've got as far as getting a couple of
servos swiveling under control of processing. I'd like to start
tinkering with materials but haven't had any training on power tools
yet. I'm guessing I shouldn't just blunder into the workshop with my
vague memory of using a lathe in metalwork class about a quarter of a
century ago?

http://edburton.net

On May 20, 2:43 pm, Ed Burton <e...@edburton.net> wrote:
> I'm embarking on a projecthttp://Opendrawer.orgto develop an

> affordable open-source hardware+software robotic platform for
> investigating simulated drawing behavior. Opendrawer focuses on a
> distinctively anthropomorphic approach to drawing: Actuated by elastic
> antagonistic muscle pairs such a robot will, like a child, rely
> extensively on visual and kinaesthetic feedback between eye, arm,
> drawing and subject to dynamically self-organize embodied drawing
> behaviors. There's some theoretical depth behind the motivation of the
> project dating back to work on simulating children's drawing behavior

> that I was doing in the 90's (http://web.archive.org/web/20030624231545/www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/CEA/Exter...
> ). I come from a creative programming background (I later madehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructoramongst other things)