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dan-o-might

I am trying to to use my bs2 stamp to take a simple image and program it to run a robot to draw it. I'm not even sure if this is possible yet being a novice to this. Since I am new here and really don't know how to navigate this site to find what I want, I would greatly appreciate any helpful links that pertain to this project. Thank you for your time.

dan-o-might

O.k. I have found something that might help. The scribbler program and robot, but I'm not sure if I can upload images to it and have it draw them. Plus I was thinking of something more etch a sketch like on a grid that can follow x,y,z dimensions. I think the robot would be easy to build using stepper motors on an easel and a solenoid to press the pencil down. All I need now is a program that can compute lines and turn it into positioning code.

erco

Your etch-a-sketch version·stands an infinitely better chance of working than a scribbler or other robot without a fixed reference point. Have a peek at Hektor, an ingenious mural-painting robot system.
http://www.hektor.ch/Videos/Landscape.mov/

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SRLM

I'm assuming that you are using a line drawing. Probably the best and easiest method is to coompute the neccesary vectors using a desktop program (Java, C++,...) that gives you a series of commands to give to whatever robot you use. Since the BS2 cannot handle images you run into the hurdle of how to interpret a picture. With a desktop program You could load the images, create paths on the images, and have the program convert those paths to useable commands. If you are really acute with the software, you could even have it download the data to the Bot since Parallax makes the tokenizer public.