Okay!  It was a good day for drawing robots in the MakerBlock household!  Here’s what we got accomplished:

• I designed some motor mounts, printed one… and had to redesign it.  Gotta love having a 3D printer!
• I selected a long shallow pine box to hold the motors and electronics.
• I tried a variety of sound insulating materials.  Bubble wrap was easily the most effective, but least practical.  I settled on some corrugated cardboard.  I placed some cardboard between the motor and the motor mount and between the motor mount and the wood.
• I soldered some longer wires to the motor leads.
• I drilled holes in the wooden box, attached some monofilament line to the spools, put the spools on the motors, mounted the motors, ran the leads to the Arduino, powered it up… and it moved around and stuff!

As this point the next step is to mount it on the wall and actually attempt to draw stuff.  Yay!