Some pictures of drawing machine:
Question 1
The drawing machine we made this week gave me some inspiration on my midterm project. I also watched a video that is called “paper, scissors and stone machine”. It introduces a device with ultrasonic distance sensor and servo motor to play paper, scissors and stone game with people who put their hands in front of the machine. I wanted to make a biting toy for Halloween and some other events for children. When I put my hand into the mouth of the skull, it would just bite and scare the person. The core of this device is a servo motor connected to the computer that its angle could be accurately controlled by computer. For the furthermore details about this device to make it more horrible/interactive/interesting, I still need some time to figure and ask for others opinions and ideas.
Question 2
In this example, author introduced a dancing “robot”.This machine is mainly used for imitate human’s dance. It is quite different in function compared to the drawing machine we built during recitation-one is used for drawing and one is used for imitate dancing. But this machine must be more accurate than the one we built during recitation as this could perform a dance correctly/perfectly but the paintings we got from our drawing machine are kind of ugly(abstract). I think this machine used servo motors (much bigger and stiffer than the one in our kit) or stepper motor as its angles are fined according to the instructions of computer to perform certain dance movement and is stiff and stable enough to support the heavy steal arms/legs.
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