If you imbued hacker technology with the artistic impulses of a crayon-wielding toddler, you’d get something like Harvey Moon’s “Drawing Machine”: a robotic contraption that transforms scanned ...

The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials -- artificially engineered composite materials that derive their properties from patterned ...

If you’re an artist who isn’t worried about the risks of automation, think again. Instagram user James Nolan Gandy expertly blended his engineering and artistic background to create robotic drawing ...

Product news: this wind-up toy by British design brand All Lovely Stuff creates abstract art when let loose on a sheet of paper. Inspired by the cotton-reel tanks they played with as children, All ...

Stepper motors are great for projects that require accurate control of motion. 3D printers, CNC machines and plotters are often built using these useful devices. [InventorArtist] built a stepper-based ...

Ahh, midterms. Some students blow off steam between study sessions by playing video games or just zoning out. While those kids were all distracted, [Justinwong777] and his buddy [Brett] found a bunch ...

ANCA CNC MACHINES has developed ToolDraft to assist cutting-tool manufacturers to develop technical patterns for their products. Like all manufactured parts, cutting tools require technical drawings ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials onto paper. They demonstrated the new approach by using it to make three ...