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What to do with a defective 3D printer? Require warranty support. But what if the device manufacturer went bankrupt? Australian maker James Novak found a rather unexpected solution.
James was “lucky” to get a 3D printer manufactured by Solidoodle, which closed last March. For five years, the company enjoyed the fame of a manufacturer of popular budget 3D printers, but after an unsuccessful deal with Chinese industrialists, product quality quickly rushed down, sales fell, and the result was a bankruptcy of the enterprise.
The last, problematic model was the Solidoodle Press 3D printer, one of the buyers of which was our hero. The machine stubbornly refused to print, it was too late to make a claim, and so James waved his hand and set about processing the device into something capable. The result was a drawing device baptized by the designer of Robo Picasso.
To a defective extruder, a home-made man screwed a fastener for a pen or felt-tip pen. Plotter, you say? Yes, but not really. The essence of the project is not so much in the ability of the machine to draw, but in the ability to do it yourself, turning photos into funny pictures reminiscent of the work of one Spanish artist. This is done with the help of a webcam and special algorithms authored by James himself, who, by coincidence, is working on a dissertation on the topic of visual programming languages. Processing takes 10-20 seconds, while the device selects up to 500 individual strokes, and then begins the actual process of sketching, which takes up to 45 minutes.
The entrepreneurial inventor decided to monetize his project by launching a campaign on Kickstarter: in just fifteen Australian dollars, a robot artist will turn your favorite photo into a unique masterpiece! Details at this link.
