Light Drawing Robot

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 29 of December , 2009 at 3:01 am

We wrote about Nils V├╢lker’s rolling orbital Bluetooth operated thing back in July, and since then, he’s been busy developing this light drawing robot (among, I assume, other things). The principle behind this bot is simple: moving lights + long camera exposure = cool. Very cool. It’s tricky to do, though, especially if you’re trying to draw anything with precision. But robots are great at precision, and if you want a light drawing made up solely of straight lines, Nils’ robot does a bang-up job:

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[ Nils V├╢lker ] VIA [ Designboom ]

Comments (5)

Category: Art

5 Comments

Comment by Robert Geczi

Made Thursday, 31 of December , 2009 at 1:43 am

Oh, this is very nice. After some time, we can catalog all the “light art” that people produce with this kind of method.

Very interesting stuff.

Comment by robotain

Made Saturday, 2 of January , 2010 at 7:53 am

moving lights + long camera exposure ?
I want to know why the robot did not leave a visible shadow.

Comment by Marusya

Made Monday, 18 of January , 2010 at 7:01 am

Amazing thing.

Comment by Mashanya

Made Tuesday, 19 of January , 2010 at 1:14 am

Wonderfull art.

Comment by Alina

Made Tuesday, 19 of January , 2010 at 11:11 pm

Satisfied this.

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