Machines that create art have caught people’s imagination throughout history. So it’s only natural that one day a machine would exist to draw those very machines. Friends, that day has come. Art and ...

Inspired by the Martin Scorsese film Hugo, an obsessive Lego enthusiast built a programmable machine that writes messages and draws pictures. All you have to do is turn a crank. Andrew Carol, who ...

Winner of a Maker Faire Editor’s Choice ribbon, Harvey Moon‘s Drawing Machine takes any black and white JPEG image and transforms it into a robot-drawn work of art. The machine is controlled by custom ...

Introduction Have you ever wished you could copy a drawing but make it larger or smaller? If you’ve ever tried to create a larger or smaller copy of your work, you’ve probably realized that it is very ...

Every picture tells a story, but in this case, every story tells a picture — dozens of pictures, in fact, which, when viewed together, tell a story of innovation and technology. Meet the Perpetual ...

Not all of us have CNC machines, laser cutters and 3D printers, and I’ll bet most of us didn’t start out that well equipped. The low-cost drawing machine that [jegatheesan] made for his daughter ...

Charles A.A. Dellschau, “Long Cross Cut on Wather on Land and up to the Clouds” (May 15, 1911) (all images courtesy Stephen Romano Gallery) Prussian immigrant Charles A.A. Dellschau spent most of his ...

The Martin Scorsese film Hugo did something fantastic: it gave life to a machine. The automaton featured in the film mirrored technology that really existed in the 18th and 19th century–a time when ...