Our charge was to create a "drawing machine" as a group. Through inspiration and discussion between us, we settled on the idea of a spinning base that holds paper while a rotating arm with some sort of mark-making device protruding from it, marking on the surface. Our final machine uses sharpies and 13"x13" paper to create the drawings. The sharpies are held in place by latex tubing on the wooden shaft, which is turned by gears attached to a crank. The wooden base is also turned by gears, which are, in turn, turned by a handle. The entire machine is human-driven, so the user/users can vary the speed and direction which the shaft and base are turning to influence the drawing.
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| Our drawing machine. Made out of 2x6 pine boards (the body of the machine), poplar wood (the shaft, gears, and handles), birch plywood (the turntable), latex tubing (attached to the shaft to hold the sharpie markers in place), and assorted metal washers and knobs. |
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| The collaged technical drawing of our machine. |
Several of the best drawings our machine produced.
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