Mini ADM (Abstract Drawing Machine)
As part of my residency, I wanted to continue working on my drawing machine from thesis,
ADM (Abstract Drawing Machine).
However, because original ADM is currently hanging on a wall in my apartment, and is quite large,
I decided to make a mini version to put on the wall in front of my desk.
It is built of the same material as the original machine, except the frame is built using 4x 500mm
long industrial black linear rail from OpenBuilds — different size different color.
For the mini version I also went with the Mini V-Gantry kits, and initially started with two new motors,
a couple of low-profile Nema-17.
However, I could not for the life of me get them to function properly. It would move really fast, none
of my original code worked, it was very 'buzzy' when running, etc. I tried fixing the wiring, double and
triple checking the wiring was correct, swapping out motor drivers, Arduinos… I even brought in the
original dual motor driver + Arduino Nano setup from my apartment, and it still didn't worked.
So ultimately, I just brought in the entire setup from home including the original motors, and voila
it worked.
[ picture ]
So far in my brief research of new equations to try out, I came across a website called Desmos — an
online graphing calculator. And it is amazing.
I'm able to play around with values, equations, and it shows me what the drawing will look like,
instead of tweaking with numbers and code and wasting a bunch of paper.
Here are some of the drawings I've done in the past few weeks, along with links to some of the
desmos graphs.
[ pictures ]