Applications and Implications
Final Project
The aim for my final project is to make a new tool for creation ...
A live painting machine which can create large scale paintings at the move of a mouse with z-axis control.
The focus of the project is to create a real time controlled machine. The z-axis will be controlled with a touchless sensor using synchrounous detection and a phototransistor, as experimented in this page.
who's done what beforehand?
- Barduino
- the fabbed arduino made in Fab Lab Barcelona - Ben Grosser's Interactive Robotic Painting Machine
- painting machine, not live and mixes all the paint colours together without cleaning its brush resulting in a murky painting. - Evil Mad Scientist's Watercolour bot/ Eggbot
-they made a plugin for Inkscape to control their bot. Very nifty and they are using the same A3967 motor drivers - Core XY The Bot of the Cloth
- A light weight very clever string based CNC system which can be made in big sizes, horizontal or vertical - Ilan Moyer's Fab in a box
- also using A3967 motor driver - Nadya Peek using A3982 motor driver with GRBL
- Andrew Oswald
-combining Core XY with GRBL
what materials and components will be required?
| One Paintbrush | 2 x Nema 17 Stepper Motors | 5m of GT2 belts | 1 recycled unipolar motor for paintbrush z brush | PLA filament for 3D printing | V railing with wheels for movement around canvas | 12V power supply | PCB board for circuits | 1 x AtMega 328p for motor controller | 3 x A3967 motor drivers | IC REG POS 0.5A ADJ VOLT DPAK | 3 IC REG POS 0.5A 5V TO-252 | 2 TRIMMER 10K OHM 0.1W SMD | DIODE SCHOTTKY SS54B | RES .22 OHM 1/4W 1% 0805 SMD | RES 20K OHM 1/8W 5% 00603 SMD | PPTC-500mA 1206 | Screw Terminal 2P 3.5mm | CAP CERAMIC .100UF 50V X7R 0603 | LED-SMD Red Diffused 0603 | SMD RES 10K-5%-1/10W 0603 | SMD CAP Ceramic 10uF-25V-10%-X5R | SMD RES 330R-5%-1/10W | SMD RES 4.7K-5%-1/10W | SMD RES 0.68Ohm-5%-1/8W | CAP CERAMIC 1.00UF 25V X7R 0603 | SMD RES 390R-5%-1/10W | RES 240 OHM 1/10W 5% 0603 SMD | CONN POWER JACK 2.1MM | CONN USB RCPT MINI B 5PS R/A SMD | CAP CER .22UF 50V Y5V 0603 | SMD RES 1K-5%-1/10W | BERGSTIK II .100" SR STRAIGHT |
what parts and systems will be made, and what processes will be used?
- Electronics Design and Production and Embedded Programming and Input and Output Devices and Networks and Communication
-motor drivers with barduino board
-synchronous detection phototransistor board - Computer Aided Design and 3D Printing
-components for core xy bot of the cloth machine, pulleys, header etc. - Interfaces and Applications Programming
-Create an easy to use user interface, a child could create with
what tasks need to be completed?
- Electronics functioning and control of three stepper motors
- Production of CoreXY bot of the cloth
what questions need to be answered?
My instructor Ferdi pointed out to me, regarding live commands being sent to the stepper motors - if mouse moves to another position before machine reaches said position, what will happen?Also brushstroke depth with phototransistor must have well mapped out values for optimization.
what is the schedule?
Week 1- I want to tackle the electronics and design the board with motor drivers and barduino.Week 2- Create the Bot of the Cloth using the CoreXY template to my desired specifications.
Week 3- Coding and creating a user-friendly GUI for all ages to enjoy the tool components for core xy
Week 4- Hopefully there will be time for creation and play