Robotart

Robotic comp #1

My daughter Tessa was playing at the playground and I snapped a photo of her as she went limp and pretended death on the bars. It is was a moment in somehow in transition between the age of innocence and delinquent young. It makes me laugh & I love it, and it can be read many ways. Tessa entered a school project fair and wanted to do robotics - an "Artbot" specifically. This was my first time every working with robots - we built everything from scratch and learned python and robotic protoyping as we went. I don't think we would of built what we did had we known just how many hours it would require. Together with Tessa's classroom friend Molly and Molly's mother Mary Vosberg, a Kindergardern Teacher, we set out to build a robot that could paint. Mary wanted the Artbot to do abstract art. I wanted to paint Tessa's playground photo. With some hobby programming background in Mathematica and Raspberry Pi's, I tried to code a paint for Tessa's playground photo. But there is an error in my code that skewed the visual representation somehow and results in a abstract playground. And now the deadline is upon us. Code & construction details available at github.com/Q-2/artBot video at cancellogic.com, or on tessadoud's youtube channel.