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 ...

The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

If you imbued hacker technology with the artistic impulses of a crayon-wielding toddler, you’d get something like Harvey Moon’s “Drawing Machine”: a robotic contraption that transforms scanned ...

Makers Justin and his friend Brett have created a fantastic DIY joystick-controlled laser drawing machine powered by an Arduino development board. The framework has been constructed from laser-cut ...

In 2016, Google LLC released a sort of digital Pictionary called Quick, Draw!, a machine learning tool that let people doodle sketches, which would then be analyzed by the tool. Apparently it caught ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials onto paper. They demonstrated the new approach by using it to make three ...

Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials -- artificially engineered composite materials that derive their properties from patterned ...