Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Doug's Drawbot
Home: California, United States
A scrapped together polar drawing robot in action, powered by Raspberry Pi and Arduino, along with some fun examples of using Processing.org in the development of photo filters and image translation algorithms.
https://drawbot.weebly.com/
Maker
Doug Biehl
I'm a marketer by trade but a mathematician at heart. I was raised by an electrical engineer and a math teacher so the maker mindset was instilled in me from an early age. I studied mathematics in college but I chose to pursue marketing as a career – so programming, building, and designing became my hobbies. Ask me about my sodoku and Wordle solving algorithms!
https://drawbot.weebly.com/What Inspired You to Make This?
In 2014, I attended Maker Faire Kansas City and saw a drawbot on display that had been built by a maker named Scott Cooper. I didn’t get to talk with Scott but was enamored by the idea of building a machine that could make art. I knew I needed to build a drawbot for myself for two reasons: 1) I wanted the challenge of designing and building the hardware 2) I wanted a platform that I could use to design different image processing algorithms Over the next few months I pulled together the materials I needed and started my build. I always intended to show off my machine at a Maker Faire in one of the many cities I've lived in (Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City) but never had a chance to. Finally, this month I was able to show off my build at Maker Faire Orange County. It was a blast talking to people about my machine and seeing the wonder in kids' eyes as they saw it operate.
