I’ve moved the latest updated version of this post to my website dedicated to “v-plotter” drawing robots.  Check it out!

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As I’m gathering the parts and the courage to build my own Drawbot, I’m keeping track of the various resources I’m using.  Since I’ll be documenting my success1 here, it would be nice to have the online resources I’m using organized in one place.  To this end, and in furtherance of this goal, and without further ado, I bring you an ever growing list of resources.2

Verbosely yours,

MakerBlock

Update:

• 2013/04/01:  Link to Vertical Plotter on Arduino.cc, DrawBug by Tinkerdays, Whiteboard plotter, and Giant Printer
• 2013/02/14:  Link to Erik the WallPlotter.
• 2013/01/25:  Link to Gontarcyyk.org
• 2012/08/27:  Link to Stuart Childs’ DRBO Polargraph
  
• 2012/08/15:  Link to Michael Cooks’ Polargraph build at Foobarsoft.com
  
• 2012/06/27: Link to Drawing Machine (Thanks LineKernel!)
  
• 2012/04/19:  Link to Facebook Wall Robot
  
• 2012/04/16:  Link to Norwegian Creations’ Drawing Machine
  
• 2012/04/10:  Link to SmoothOctopus and Dan Royer’s Drawbot! (Thanks Dan!)
• 2012/03/26:  Link to GarabatoBOT
• 2012/03/18:  Link to Dealywhopper’s Mr. Scratchy
• 2012/02/16:  Added links to John Cliff’s “Ugly Cousin” DrawBot
  
• 2012/02/12: Added link to Viktor
  
• 2012/01/30: Added Lanthan’s printable Krizlerbot Polargraph gondola
  
• 2012/01/27:  Added more info about James Provost’s InternBot and several other DrawBots
  
• 2012/01/19:  Updated to include link to Matthew Venn’s energy monitoring Polargraph
  
• 2012/01/09:  Updated to include link to Matt Met’s Whiteboard drawbot!  Thanks for the link Matt!

Links:

• Der Kritzler by Alex Weber
• Polargraph by Sandy Noble
  • Polargraph Instructible, Google code wiki, setup guide
  • Flickr set, Vimeo
  • Sandy’s note about enabling drawing of squares
• Printed Polargraph by John Abella
  • John’s printed Polargraph Flickr set
  • John designed a printable gondola and ball-chain-pulley on Thingiverse
  • John used Kit Kraft for ball-chain, Adafruit for steppers and the motor shield3, with a Freeduino
• Printed Krizlerbot Polargraph gondola by Lanthan (on Thingiverse)
• Mambohead aka Darcy Whyte’s drawing robot Mr. Drew Darcy is incredibly prolific and has shared much of his work on his site
• “Ugly Cousin” DrawBot by John Cliff, picture 1, picture 2
• Dealywhopper’s Dr. Scratchy
• GarabatoBOT (DoodleBOT) on Thingiverse, YouTube, blog
• Hektor
• Thing-a-day, Day 19: Whiteboard Bot by Matt Mets
  • An awesome comment from LadyAda with a photo of her own whiteboard bot!
• Viktor by Jürg Lehni
• Drawing machine by Harvey Moon (under Multimedia Works) also, here
• Drawbot by AS220 Labs
• Muralizer by Josh Myer
• Drawbot tutorial on Make Magazine by Shawn Wallace
  • Make It Last Newsletter
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #14
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #2
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #3
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #4
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #5
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #6
  • Blog posts about the contest5
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #1
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #2
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #3
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #4
    • Make It Last Build #3, Dispatch #5
• James Provost’s InternBot
  • James’ InternBot Flickr set
• Bill Rasmussen’s 2e5.com plotter theory
• SADbot by Dustyn Roberts
• Tristan Perich Machine Drawing
  • Tristan’s helpful description of the theory behind the control software
• Matthew Venn’s polargraph energy monitoring
• Doug Kanter’s thoughts on drawing robot tech
• Mark Stephenson’s mention of drawing robot art at ArtEngine ModLab (mention of Mambohead’s drawbot)
• Sailindaze’s posts about his drawing robot, an update on said robot, and his trip to the Maker Faire Detroit
• FlickrHiveMind.net collection of photos tagged with “drawbot”
• Bill French’s drawing robot at FUBAR labs
• This RasterWeb Friday Night DrawBot is a rolling robot that draws logo-esque circles
• SmoothOctopus Flickr stream
• Dan Royer’s Drawbot on his blog Marginally Clever with his hard work and source code shared on Github!
• Norwegian Creations’ Drawing Machine 
• Facebook Wall Robot on Instructibles
• Drawing Machine by LineKernel
• Polargraph build by Michael Cook at Foobarsoft
• Stuart Childs’ DRBO Polargraph
• Gontarczyk.org
• Matt Ball and Will (?) built Erik the Wall Plotter and shared their software on Github
• Vertical Plotter on Arduino.cc by Pietro Leoni
• DrawBug by Tinkerdays at Arduino.cc and Tinkerdays.com with pictures at Flickr
• Whiteboard Plotter (in Icelandic)
• Another Whiteboard Plotter by Spritetm
• Giant Printer by GeekPhysical with a YouTube video and some Flickr photos.  Their blog indicates this project was created in 2006 using some code that’s about 10 years old as of 2011.  Unfortunately, their code and designs are not open source.
• Printball by Benjamin Gaulon6

1. Or, alternatively, EPIC failures [↩]
2. Some of which were borrowed from Sandy Noble‘s site [↩]
3. Instructions for Adafruit motor shield assembly [↩]
4. Includes parts list! [↩]
5. The Make Magazine contest ended 3/3/2011 [↩]
6. The last one is just a graffiti/painter robot that paints on far off walls by shooting a paintball gun at the surface.  It’s really quite awesome. [↩]