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Greetings HN! My name is James, @techninja on Github, and I'm a long time HN watcher and learner. Just this past 6 months I decided crazily to follow some random thought I had abou…

What a beautiful hack by nature. I wonder if you could create a lens with a similarly shaped pupil/iris and see the chromatic aberration in a black and white camera correctly focus…

Abstracted color getters! This seems to be the biggest issue with users. You have to wet the brush and wiggle on the color to actually get anything on the brush. They can't seem to…

I'd love to implement your work in RoboPaint, might even be able to pull some color information to make portraits from black sharpie outline with your implementation and watercolor…

And joshu was too! Talked to him about drawing algos. He's too smart for his own good ;) Oh I would probably do something along the lines of adding simple shapes (Circle x/y & radi…

HA! Well, that's hilarious. I was just talking to @eliot at Hackaday supercon about making this with WaterColorBot and CNCserver at his suggestion, I guess if it's out there it's o…

Oh dear... Might have to build this now hmm? I'm not sure it counts if it's got a arduino in it and a cat 5 sticking out the back. The water is also an issue.

Yep, made an account just for this! I check the oursignal.com aggregator regularly (though the delicious.com content it adds is of seriously dubious quality). The hackernews and re…

Yep. Making a show is in itself an amazing discovery of what you could do. We keep everything simple, the script is only a basic guideline and she takes an active role in every par…

Sylvia's dad here, Great to see the hacker news crowd has found the show entertaining and useful! We glossed over a lot of the programming aspect because the physical aspect of mak…