I wonder how similar two paintings with the exact same parameters would actually end up looking in reality. Also, it was trippy to see one of the same servos I used in my robotic arm capstone project in this video. Just found your channel and loving your videos. :)
Or what if we repeated the same parameters over and over and performed some sort of compilation or analysis algorithm to determine the similarity rate!
This thing is so awesome! Just came back to re-watch the video for a second time. The art world has been really big on "generative art" this year. This is a really interesting physical example, whereas most creations are in the digital realm. Very cool stuff.
Wow, some of those came out looking surprisingly beautiful. Great work. I mean, it’s very over-engineered, but that’s what we come here for, after all!
So very cool! I love how many parameters you made variable. I would've never have known or guessed you made the scoop variable. Loved that part. And the art came out pretty cool too. If I had this, I would have to figure out a way to sell the resulting art for at least cost just so I could keep having it make new stuff. Otherwise I'd go broke the first few days just having it go through paint and canvases until I couldn't buy any more. 😂
Very nice. If someone hasn’t already suggested it, have a single servo push a rod on the arm to activate push-to-open gravity paint taps and eliminate the servo per color complexity/cost. But the servo dispenser array looks pretty.
This is fantastic! I coach a highschool robotics team in a rural area that doesn't appreciate technolog. We are always looking for creative ideas and ways in which to fund our team. Making a robot that paints might be a great way to bring awareness to our team and raise funds at the same time. Something like this would be great to have at the local street fairs! Thank you for the inspiration!
Awesome project! Would be cool to see the repeatability of the artwork created - i.e., store the variables and run it again on a new canvas that is in the same position. Would be a cool way to make a bunch that are similar, yet still have minor differences.
Came here to add this as well. Was hoping you tried it in the video. Would be very cool to see how similar/dissimilar it would be repeated multiple times.
This would be really cool if you put it on your website and allow people to select those settings and then purchase the painting. And for an added level of awesomeness, stream the process.
4:21 You can't just multiply these. The 1-3 colors parameter makes way more combinations, and makes the calculation a little more complicated, since you then have to sometimes consider some of the parameters multiple times. The same thing is true for the 4-8 throws per canvas.
Jay, Thank you now I have to quit painting as there is a robot better than me 🤣😂🤣. This was amazing. You really could sell those they looked good. See you on Ticktoc 👍
What kind of paint does your flingbot use? Can it use acrylic paint? How do you keep the paint from drying out and clogging up the valves? And how big of a canvas will it cover? By the way... I am an electrical engineer by schooling (masters from Purdue), but have become an artist after an accident and brain injury made engineering work impossible. And I'm having the time of my life.
The number of possibilities is much greater than stated. The variation in the number of paint colors used per fling and the number of paint colors is much more than 3 * 12. The possible contents of the scoop rely on the number of colors chosen and the individual colors. It also depends on the order in which they are chosen due to the way they layer in the scoop. Assuming you allow the same color to be chosen more than once per fling: If 1 color: there are 12 possibilities per fling If 2 colors: 144 possibilities per fling If 3 colors: 1728 possibilities per fling So for any one flings, there are 1728+144+12 = 1884 possible unique "scoop contents", not a simple 3x12. So your possible combos goes up by about 52x. Actually, if you DO allow the same color to be chosen twice or three times, those combinations of adjacent same colors can be removed, since green/green is the same as green/green. But green/blue/green is different from blue/green/green. If you don't allow consecutive repeats, or you don't allow repeats within a scoop, then that reduces the possibilities per fling.... But I'm at work, in a truck, on a phone and can't do the detals rn. But it's a freakin lot!
Wow it really was an LSD catapult, huh? xD The paint dispenser system reminds me of a homemade metal 3D printer I once saw, using dispensers of sand and metal powder to fill a box in specific patterns. The whole box would then go into a crucible where the metal would fuse and the sand would hold it in place, brilliant design really
This was a very cool project you did here! Thanks for sharing it with everyone! I’m surprised I haven’t stumbled upon your channel sooner! Subbing for sure!
Hey, nice robot =) did you by any chance logged the results of the random generators and tested, if fling bot would create 2 similar looking pictures, when feeding it with the same randoms? also, you were a great canvas yourself. Thanks for all your hard work, i really enjoy your content!
Could've added a paint mixer for the scoop once the colors are loaded in... 60 variables for mixer's RPM, 60 variables for time. That'd bump you to 5,114,430,720,000 possibilities.
@@Engineezy Other than that, I am in awe at your creativity and implementation. If you ever feel the need to talk to an IP attorney, it would be my pleasure to give you some pro bono time.
so ... in theory, since the random function in arduino is pesudorandom - the pictures after a reeboot should look at least similar would be intersting.
If you could add the ability to blend multiple paints I believe you could get away with 4-5 paint tubes retaining the variable deposition to get different colors.
If you do not mind me asking what was your major? and also was there any personal research. I am currently a mechanical engineering tech student and looking into learning Programming language and other things on my own. Any advice or skills needed?.
My major was mechanical engineering, but I learned much of the electronics on my own. My best advice is to pick a project and go after it, then repeat ;)
Yo, any of those for sale? Also, see if you can get with the slomo guys I'm sure they would like to do some of the interesting paint panting on the canvis and maybe even shots of the scoop with different profiles and how it changes the flow.
God Bless the Creator. Totally Amazed. Wonderful to see creativity in Action. Where can one purchase a Painting. Create Bigger Painting Capture ALL and you can cut to suit.
This would be cool to add AI to and a web interface so people could sort of describe their desired painting and have the bot paint it for them so they could purchase it.
Of course you would only be able to use certain key words, but those words could have the ai generate a particular response from the bot. So you could enter, "moody and dark" or "bright and happy" and then have an ai generate a digital image of the painting for the customer to confirm and then the bot would proceed to paint it.
I received a paper cut out that the ax man chops off a man’s head. I have the template where you can buy it at Tower if London gift shop. I wanted one built but runs or operates using a magnet. Can you create this for me?
Hey JBV! I made a similar project with a couple of friends but ran into issues with the paint dispensing. Where did you get the parts for the automated valves? :)
Now take this, hook up a webcam which looks at the outcome and generates a random number based upon the outcome by applying various math functions on pixel values somehow. Then, create a random number/password generator website where a person can see the outcome as both the number/password generated, and the picture. EDIT: NFT!
You made a mistake in your statistics. :( You had 3 possibilities for number of paints, and 12 paint colors to choose from. You calculated this as 36 combinations, but it should be 298 (= C(12, 1) + C(12, 2) + C(12, 3) = 12!/(1!*11!) + 12!/(2!*10!) + 12!/(3!*9!)).
The silicon scoop being able to change is Genius. Love the work!!!
Thanks Ian! Definitely my favourite design feature 😀
Of all the random possible flings, that last fling to the face was absolutely, beautifully, perfectly on target! 👌 Bravo good sir! 👍
The sales from these could support you for life.
I wonder how similar two paintings with the exact same parameters would actually end up looking in reality. Also, it was trippy to see one of the same servos I used in my robotic arm capstone project in this video. Just found your channel and loving your videos. :)
exactly what I was wondering.... !
Or what if we repeated the same parameters over and over and performed some sort of compilation or analysis algorithm to determine the similarity rate!
Can I frustrate you by saying "peristaltic pump"?
This thing is so awesome! Just came back to re-watch the video for a second time. The art world has been really big on "generative art" this year. This is a really interesting physical example, whereas most creations are in the digital realm. Very cool stuff.
Thanks Ryan! Very much appreciated :)
Suggestion: put multiple canvases around so all the over, under, or side extra flings could make a picture, too. Like a series.
Cool idea!
Hey! I saw you at the 'On The Verge' event and love the painting I took home! Great to watch how the machine was made
Hey! Glad you checked out the video! Thanks so much for the support :)
Also definitely so cool to see the slow motion shots as I'm sure in real time it just seems to happen so fast
Those paintings look sick!
Wow, some of those came out looking surprisingly beautiful. Great work. I mean, it’s very over-engineered, but that’s what we come here for, after all!
Haha sure is! Thank you 👊👊
So very cool! I love how many parameters you made variable.
I would've never have known or guessed you made the scoop variable. Loved that part.
And the art came out pretty cool too. If I had this, I would have to figure out a way to sell the resulting art for at least cost just so I could keep having it make new stuff.
Otherwise I'd go broke the first few days just having it go through paint and canvases until I couldn't buy any more. 😂
😂😂 so true!
Hell yeah great work man. Those slow mo shots are awesome!
Thank you! Was a fun one to shoot
Very nice. If someone hasn’t already suggested it, have a single servo push a rod on the arm to activate push-to-open gravity paint taps and eliminate the servo per color complexity/cost. But the servo dispenser array looks pretty.
Ooh thats very smart! Next version for sure!
This is awesome! Love the variety of designs you come up with.
Thanks Eric 👊👊
This is fantastic! I coach a highschool robotics team in a rural area that doesn't appreciate technolog. We are always looking for creative ideas and ways in which to fund our team. Making a robot that paints might be a great way to bring awareness to our team and raise funds at the same time. Something like this would be great to have at the local street fairs!
Thank you for the inspiration!
Thanks for watching Rob! I agree its an amazing way to introduce people to what is possible :) good luck!
Am I the only one who is in love with the way his shirt looks at the end?
I doo!! Still have it 😀
I just found your channel. Vastly underrated! I love this 🔥
Appreciate it!
Awesome project! Would be cool to see the repeatability of the artwork created - i.e., store the variables and run it again on a new canvas that is in the same position. Would be a cool way to make a bunch that are similar, yet still have minor differences.
Thats a cool idea! Would be interesting to see how much the factors outside of the robot's control affect the results.
Came here to add this as well. Was hoping you tried it in the video. Would be very cool to see how similar/dissimilar it would be repeated multiple times.
yeah! I am looking forward to this video.
This would be really cool if you put it on your website and allow people to select those settings and then purchase the painting. And for an added level of awesomeness, stream the process.
That's a great idea! Might have to bring it back!
I know it's a little old but it really makes me want to see a machine that makes unique patterns on t-shirts. Might be a cool merch to sell too!
That variable scoop is absolutely sweet man. I love it. Make 2.0 rotate the canvas aswell
Definitely my favourite feature! And yeah that combined with angle variation 👌
yo man this is sweet. over engineering to the extreme
Thanks haha! Pretty much :)
Another nice addition wouldve been a rotating canvas. So beautiful
I found my next favorite engineering channel! Micheal reeves doesn't post anymore lol. Fantastic build!!
Thank you!! Appreciate it
Very cool build! Sharing on The Awesomer.
Thank you sir 👊👊
4:21 You can't just multiply these. The 1-3 colors parameter makes way more combinations, and makes the calculation a little more complicated, since you then have to sometimes consider some of the parameters multiple times. The same thing is true for the 4-8 throws per canvas.
Cool project! Would be interesting to see if two paintings would look the same if they were painted with the same parameters/random seed 😊
It would’ve been! Will have to explore with v2
Jay, Thank you now I have to quit painting as there is a robot better than me 🤣😂🤣. This was amazing. You really could sell those they looked good. See you on Ticktoc 👍
Thanks John! Maybe I’ll get it set up again and create some sellable painting!
So cool dude if you added a rotation to the canvas imagine the endless designs 😀 👌
Haha we will absolutely have that on v2!
totally brilliand and totally crazy but i love every second of it
Haha thank you!
What kind of paint does your flingbot use? Can it use acrylic paint? How do you keep the paint from drying out and clogging up the valves? And how big of a canvas will it cover? By the way... I am an electrical engineer by schooling (masters from Purdue), but have become an artist after an accident and brain injury made engineering work impossible. And I'm having the time of my life.
You can increase the number of possibilities EVEN MORE if you take canvas colour and position into consideration!
Absolutely! Brings the number up to at least a bajillion!
This is awesome ! I would also love to recommend an adjustable easel to change the orientation therefore splash zone
Thanks Jim! That will definitely be on V2!
You should make of these videos I love them!!
Thank you!
The number of possibilities is much greater than stated.
The variation in the number of paint colors used per fling and the number of paint colors is much more than 3 * 12.
The possible contents of the scoop rely on the number of colors chosen and the individual colors. It also depends on the order in which they are chosen due to the way they layer in the scoop.
Assuming you allow the same color to be chosen more than once per fling:
If 1 color: there are 12 possibilities per fling
If 2 colors: 144 possibilities per fling
If 3 colors: 1728 possibilities per fling
So for any one flings, there are 1728+144+12 = 1884 possible unique "scoop contents", not a simple 3x12. So your possible combos goes up by about 52x.
Actually, if you DO allow the same color to be chosen twice or three times, those combinations of adjacent same colors can be removed, since green/green is the same as green/green. But green/blue/green is different from blue/green/green.
If you don't allow consecutive repeats, or you don't allow repeats within a scoop, then that reduces the possibilities per fling....
But I'm at work, in a truck, on a phone and can't do the detals rn.
But it's a freakin lot!
🤯🤯
@@Engineezy LOL. I REALLY liked my statistics classes.
Cool stuff you're making. I wish I had more time for stuff like this!
I'd love to see how repeatable the results are by having it create two (or more) paintings with exactly the same parameters.
I wish I had tested that! That will def be in version 2.0!
Wow it really was an LSD catapult, huh? xD
The paint dispenser system reminds me of a homemade metal 3D printer I once saw, using dispensers of sand and metal powder to fill a box in specific patterns. The whole box would then go into a crucible where the metal would fuse and the sand would hold it in place, brilliant design really
Hahah you hit the nail on the head! Ill have to check it out
@@Engineezy It took a bit of finding back but here you go: (hopefully UA-cam will let me post a link here) ua-cam.com/video/4FkzLs7cLes/v-deo.html
This was a very cool project you did here! Thanks for sharing it with everyone! I’m surprised I haven’t stumbled upon your channel sooner! Subbing for sure!
Appreciate you watching 😀
That last clip was fukin awesome
Thanks Mohamed!
Hey, nice robot =) did you by any chance logged the results of the random generators and tested, if fling bot would create 2 similar looking pictures, when feeding it with the same randoms? also, you were a great canvas yourself. Thanks for all your hard work, i really enjoy your content!
I have an idea, you could continually run fling bot and paint t-shirts and sell those shirts as a line of merch.
Love that idea!
I’d love to see Flingbot try using the exact same parameters 2-5 times to see how repeatable the results could be
Def need to try that if V2 ever happens!
Awesome project and video! Go you!
Thanks Nathan!
I like your Easel!
Legendary easel 😎
Could've added a paint mixer for the scoop once the colors are loaded in... 60 variables for mixer's RPM, 60 variables for time. That'd bump you to 5,114,430,720,000 possibilities.
Very true!
@@Engineezy Other than that, I am in awe at your creativity and implementation. If you ever feel the need to talk to an IP attorney, it would be my pleasure to give you some pro bono time.
so ... in theory, since the random function in arduino is pesudorandom - the pictures after a reeboot should look at least similar would be intersting.
Something worth exploring if there’s ever a V2!
This is Great!!! Could it make the same painting twice if used the same parameters?
In a perfect theoretical world! But there are so many inconsistencies that it would likely never produce the same exact painting!
Yo that's a crazy video, and an amazing project!
Extra challenge: random angles for the canvas?
Thanks my brother! Definitely considered it!
Came from the post on reddit
Hope you enjoyed!
If you could add the ability to blend multiple paints I believe you could get away with 4-5 paint tubes retaining the variable deposition to get different colors.
This is true! Maybe for V2!
Here have some paint YEEESET
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
If you do not mind me asking what was your major? and also was there any personal research. I am currently a mechanical engineering tech student and looking into learning Programming language and other things on my own. Any advice or skills needed?.
My major was mechanical engineering, but I learned much of the electronics on my own. My best advice is to pick a project and go after it, then repeat ;)
You should make a jbv creative museum and put all the things you invented in it
One day I would love to!
Yo, any of those for sale? Also, see if you can get with the slomo guys I'm sure they would like to do some of the interesting paint panting on the canvis and maybe even shots of the scoop with different profiles and how it changes the flow.
They’re all gone for now, but I may bring it back one day in the future! And Ill definitely keep the slowmo guys in mind :)
Amazing! Brilliant concept and so fun to watch! I love your detail! Are you selling the paintings???
Thanks Mom!! 😘
No, seriously... are these paintings for sale?
@@cjennings1524 shoot me an email - jbvcreative@gmail.com 👊
Hi J! I did; have you received it? Maybe spam filter caught it?
If you can manually input parameters, I wonder how similar two paintings with the same settings would look
Definitely worth exploring if I ever bring it back into existence!
Is there a way that maybe we can purchase one of those paintings??😃
God Bless the Creator. Totally Amazed. Wonderful to see creativity in Action.
Where can one purchase a Painting.
Create Bigger Painting Capture ALL and you can cut to suit.
you haven't taken in the calculation the random amount of paint. the number should be significantly higher.
Looks better then a Jackson pallock
I'll take it 😂
Missed NFT and Merch opportunity
What are you thinking??
@@Engineezy Take high res photos of the art and sell them as NFTs and then create a super limited run of shirts painted by the robot
sell the art.
This would be cool to add AI to and a web interface so people could sort of describe their desired painting and have the bot paint it for them so they could purchase it.
Of course you would only be able to use certain key words, but those words could have the ai generate a particular response from the bot. So you could enter, "moody and dark" or "bright and happy" and then have an ai generate a digital image of the painting for the customer to confirm and then the bot would proceed to paint it.
Thats a very cool idea!
@@Engineezy thx
I received a paper cut out that the ax man chops off a man’s head.
I have the template where you can buy it at Tower if London gift shop.
I wanted one built but runs or operates using a magnet. Can you create this for me?
You shod yuse 3d glop for melting the 3d printed parts thogether
You know that if you had done those paint 500 years ago you would be billionaire nowaday !
That would be pretty groovy 😎
You forgot to rotate the canvas randomly.
Yeah... I know... I'm a little late.
Your t-shirt at the end looks like it could be sold for 100£ at some punk-chic clothing store in London.
I like where your head is at!
My wife would be pissed to walk into the room after a day of painting. What an amazing mess. lol.
Amazing mess is a perfect way to put it!
Hey JBV! I made a similar project with a couple of friends but ran into issues with the paint dispensing. Where did you get the parts for the automated valves? :)
The valves and servos are from amazon, the other parts I designed and printed. Good luck with the project!
Would you share the files?
"Sold for 2.4 million dollars!"
Now take this, hook up a webcam which looks at the outcome and generates a random number based upon the outcome by applying various math functions on pixel values somehow. Then, create a random number/password generator website where a person can see the outcome as both the number/password generated, and the picture.
EDIT: NFT!
NFTs would be dope
Yesssss bro!!
👊👊👊
hello, i’d like to speak about a possible commission piece if possible!
I can forward you a template of it and let me know if it is doable and how much ($).
Plan on displaying this on my desk or stand.
Is this your nft project that's going to launch
That would be a fun one!
What was your major in College
Mechanical engineering!
this is awesome but if you really want to give Jackson Pollock the 🖕 I would suggest randomly rotating the canvas in between flings 😁
Hahaha! That will be V2
Ça doit être marrant a piloter
Oui, absolutment!!
Modern art says the you can sell the for a few million dollars
That would be really really nice 🛌🛌
You made a mistake in your statistics. :(
You had 3 possibilities for number of paints, and 12 paint colors to choose from. You calculated this as 36 combinations, but it should be 298 (= C(12, 1) + C(12, 2) + C(12, 3) = 12!/(1!*11!) + 12!/(2!*10!) + 12!/(3!*9!)).
Haha! The paintings get even more unique! Apparently I would make a terrible statistician 🤷♀️
@@Engineezy No worries, cool robot!
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Wow, what a waste of resources
A robot isn’t creative! The most unique thing you’ve done here is your slo motion shots of the paint. The paintings aren’t very creative at all!
It all depends on your definition of creative!
Ah yes, trebuchet art 😅
Hahaha yes!