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art+com created a massive chalkbot at Jelling Museum in Denkmark: https://artcom.de/en/project/experience-centre-royal-jelling...
And here I thought it was the Nike Chalkbot: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmW-eGCrSxs Still cool though!
Nike Chalkbot was a project by Pittsburgh-based Deeplocal: http://www.deeplocal.com/projects/chalkbot.html
The OP's Chalkbot however announces itself as being inspired by Jurg Lehni's HEKTOR (2002). Scholars (HT @Sandy Noble of Polargraph) will note HEKTOR's twin-cord design from 2.30m in this deeply awesome MIT MediaLab/ SIGGRAPH video from 1988. Made of Lego! Programmed in LOGO!
Presume there are antecedents (pendulographs, anyone?) for this too. AFAICS, Lehni does not acknowledge the MIT crew anywhere... tsk tsk.
ACM SIGGRAPH 1988 Issue 40 - Lego/Logo
https://open-video.org/details.php?videoid=8213
Graffitiwriter vs Nike Chalkbot
http://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/07/07/chalkbot-ver...
Polargraph
Nice resource for drawing machines here:
I wonder what this would look like if they could speed up the motors and smooth out the motion with some more taught string. Maybe they could recreate more hand-like motions.
If you're in San Francisco, at The Interval, they have a chalkboard drawing robot similar to Chalkbot: http://blog.longnow.org/02014/03/13/interval-chalk-board-rob... Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpQzIaH90f8 These projects are really cool.