Review � Drawing Machine takes prize at Maker Faire

Right now, I am in the San Francisco area, but I wish I could have been there for the Maker Faire, which was last week.

The Drawing Machine that you see here in the photo was one of the winners of an Editor�s Choice award, and he didn�t even expect to show it off at this year�s fair. The device is able to recreate a JPG mechanically in the form of a drawing.

It has a set-up with Arduino software, and it takes weeks or even months to complete the image. You have to admit that is a pretty long time to wait for a drawing, and yes, a human would be able to do it faster. I�m not certain if a human can achieve the level of detail that this device can, as it makes a drawing of Frankenstein�s monster from the classic motion picture look like a still from the movie.

Yeah, this is one of those times where you have to compare the work of a human with that of a machine. In this case, it is a fair comparison, because part of the programming code of this machine is to create a random element to each drawing. This means that every drawing will be different.

http://gizmodo.com/5806224/feed-the-drawing-machine-an-image-and-it-will-sketch-it