Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

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Post by notmine1337 » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)
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Re: Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

#2

Post by Antibabelic » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 10:58 AM UTC

This thing is basically a small pen plotter for kids. Would love to see it do a more complicated design.

Re: Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

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Post by dang » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

(Sorry for the offtopicness: this is a re-spawn of notmine1337's earlier post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45925665, which was too old to re-up directly.

Normally we'd email a repost invite for these (see https://news.ycombinator.com/invited) but I was unable to do that in this case. I hope this is ok!)

Re: Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

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Post by McAdam » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

super cool teardown

Re: Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

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Post by jdboyd » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

Antibabelic wrote: post #2

This thing is basically a small pen plotter for kids. Would love to see it do a more complicated design.

You just know the next version will probably get voice recognition and some connection to an LLM to generate line drawings for it too then place on paper.

I think it would be cool to have a variant built that included some sort of turtle graphic system. Or maybe a voice controlled logo language?

Re: Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

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Post by ctchocula » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 5:38 AM UTC

This reminded me of those booths they have at company holiday parties where they take a photo of you, convert it to a line drawing and have the robot draw it out for you to keep. Very cool hack!