A New Spin on String Art Machines
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2019
- This is a video describing my new string art machine.
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Source Files: (slowly being added): github.com/bdring/StringArt
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As an alternative to finding hard rubber wheels, the ring on the base that the wheels ride on can be coated with a resilient compound, such as rubber roofing, or multiple coats of a latex paint. Or, sheet rubber can be cut into arcs to cover that ring, and contact cemented to the base.
Note to self: red 3D printed parts go great with steel, aluminum, and particle board.
Definitely. I bought some red spools lately and it appears those look great in that combo. I was worried I never had a project to use it for, but this is great.
Beautiful automation. A master weaver robot :D
So elegant and patient, a wonderful example in practice to learn from.
Well done, Barton!
For the time lapse you might try having some sort of visual angle reference on the bed that is easily visible to a camera mounted directly above it. This way you could "rotate" the bed to the same index position in each photo essentially making the time lapse look like the machine is moving around the art. I think this would be very cool looking.
Well you know the angle of the bed right? Couldn't you just rotate the image in post?
@@Synthetica9 this would work fine too as long as you have a way to associate the angle to the image file. Having a mark on the bed that you simply rotate in post to the 12 o'clock position would probably be easier since you don't necessarily have to cross reference a list of files and angles.
However if you were controlling the camera from the same control board and if it has a little extra processing power, it could be trivial to take the photo, immediately run something like ImageMagik on it to rotate it using the angle from the bed controller as a parameter while your string art machine is laying down the next string. Rinse and repeat and your "post" processing is done around the same time as the artwork you would just need to run the rotated and cropped image stack through ffmpeg or something to make it into a video.
This is a fascinating project. Thanks for sharing. That drill fixture is really cool.
Clever and clean build, really incredible. Thank you
Man, this project pleases my engineering-heart. So many clever solutions! Neatly done sir :D
love the project, great execution and design. 10/10 video.
keep it up and this channel will explode.
Genius! Great project, from an even greater inventor!
Thx for sharing!
When I was young, I used to make such graphs by hand, and the whole neighbourship wanted to get one too!
so cool! Thanks for taking the time to explain your process and uploading!
this is so great. as soon as I saw it i was thinking "but how does he deal with the thread stacking up vertically?"... then i watched some more. "yeah, but... you can't just keep adding thread to the same nail over and over!"... watched some more. saw the nails at an angle. "oh man... that is a beautiful solution." Really love this. Thanks for sharing. Seems like we just need someone to write a program to convert into string art without using matlab!
Octave is an open source and most likely will execute on the .m files that are hosted. Worth giving it a shot.
How much
Dude! So well documented, so well explained! And what a beautiful, complex machine!!!
Amazing work! Results looks really great!
This is amazing work, a truly creative project.
Just heard your interview!
All these builds are amazing!
As for the time lapse, you have the solution already built in!
Use the platter home switch to trigger the camera every time it spins past!
Or, give the edge holders a second bump
lower(or higher) then the home switch(as to not interfere), so you could trigger the camera:
When it passes home.
When it passes home and 180°from home.
Flip the upside down pictures in post.
Home, 120°, 240°, correct and align in post.
Or a picture every 60°, again rotating the pictures so they align properly in post.
i really wanted to watch this machine make a full piece of art from start to finish. the engineering is amazing but watching it work would have been the most satisfying part. good job.
Really well done. Fantastic build. I've never seen one of these machines before but, having hand created string back in the day, I find this technology fascinating.
Wow! It's so beautiful. Hey if you implement that timelapse feature, consider having the bed slowly spin during the time lapse!
Oh man...such awesome CNC designs man...awesome!
So nice Bart, im so thankfull for all your work. I used GRBL alot on many machines :)
From one DIY'er to another, this is very nice work!
Incredible design. Nice work!
Awesome project! Thank you for sharing!
"i wanted to put my spin on the design" haha nice pun
Great work, big fan of your other projects!
as for the camera part i think you can use the limit switch thing which can find the zero and find the more repeated number in the pins, for example, pin number 144, then when ever it stops on the pin 144 code the cam to click on it. i think it may help, i am not a technical expert :)
yes - and if there’s too much of a gap between calls to pin 144, extra ones could be inserted to smooth out the time-lapse.
How about rotating the image by software? No need to drive to pin 0 first, which saves time. 🤔
@@carlc.4714idea is good, but it will take more time to process it, and I think the end result will be blurry
@@kevCarricooooh well thats a good idea 💡❤
Could consider it a wall mount, behind a display glass.
It would become an art piece, that makes art
Brilliant and amazing machinery and your concept is just as beautiful and amazing the pieces of art it creates
Great work! Thanks for sharing.
Thats super nice !! great job in the design love it !!!
Another interesting idea would be to make a printer that prints in a circle. The paper rotates on wheel and the print head goes left and right, but only half way across and the paper rotates after each row of pixels printed until the paper is full.
AMAZING!! Certainly made my head spin ;D
Really excellent work.
Thank you for teaching us!
This is legit one of the coolest things I have ever seen
Fantastic work! thanks for sharing
Really enjoyed this, Bart! Would love to hear how it's developed since you launched the video.
Wow. This is so
well thought out.
Beautiful work!
Very impressive.
And the description is very interesting.
one wonderful dimension of this string art, for me, is the contrast which such a medium can attain. I mean: the black can be *really* black, as the threads create a ‘colour’ which it is probably impossible to attain using paints, merely.
I have rarely been so impressed by a UA-cam video.
Wow!! Love this.
This is utterly daft ! I love it !
Interesting look forward to seeing more
mind blown, well done sir
That’s great, thanks for sharing 👍
Nice! It would be cool if the time-lapse camera could rotate with the string art, so on the animation it looks as though the machine and the room is rotating round the image as its being created.
I agree, honestly that's a whole project in and of itself that's fairly non-trivial to make. I know there's an entire product designed for shooting videos of 3D printers while keeping the printing plate in the same location in frame so the build "grows smoothly" in time lapses.
This is amazing.... sorry it took me four years to find this video. Thanks for sharing.
my winter project as soon as everythink is released,I see you have improved the coaster drawing machine maybe I will rebuild mine and get vit to work.
Well that's the quickest I have ever hit subscribe from a video. I didn't even finish watching it before I hit subscribe. I guess this video is about 4 years old, but it's the first of yours that I've seen. Now off to see what else you have!
that is amazing!
I feel like you could do a timelapse with some decent image stabilization software, or you could take an image every time the threader moves and calculate the rotation manually. Though the threader would jump around, I think it'd still look pretty cool.
Use a v-groove bearing with an o-ring wrapped around it. Simple cheap and easily replaced.
The angled nails is so clever.
Aresome design, thanks!
Absolutely amazing
this. is. fascinating.
pretty cool build, you should try getting some white thread and dripping dye on it of various colors, then making a picture with it :) Also putting all your moving parts on rubber bushings can reduce the noise, and adding sound absorbing material to the back side of the base will cut some noise. The gears themselves can be noisy as well, going to a belt drive system is a great way to reduce even more noise.
really amazing ... *thumbs up
Could you do a CMYK separation of the original image and then do 4 passes using 4 thread colors to stimulate a color printer? I'm thinking the number of threads used in each layer would need to be much less, but that the final result might look quite good.
Tip - Super glue a rubber band around your bearings - Instant rubber wheel.
Thankyou for the inspiration. I did my electronics studies way back in the 80s and by a twist of fate found myself surfing the personal computer tsunami before moving on to programming. Things have moved on a ton since those days of discrete components. There were chips available of course but nothing compared to what we have now. As for machining and laser printing, well, a whole universe there.
My youngest son has finished his studies and will be moving out so I have a room I can work in undisturbed. In the meantime, I have some catching up to do I think. :)
Pretty ingenious. I wish Maker Bot and other 3D Printers and CNC-like kits were available when I was much younger. I would definitely been into it and would have liked to have created something like this rig. Very Cool.
it’s not too late!
What a weird excuse, being older does not prohibit you from doing anything man
7:47 have you thought about model railroad cork roadbed? its pretty sturdy, and is used in model railroads specifically to hold its position and shape without allowing the track to deform, while still providing sound deadening.
So cool! Pure art!!
An elegant build and expertly crafted. Well done sir. Have you considered a version that does the drawing in sand - like a pendulum?
For the bearings acting as wheels, you could print some simple tpu tires for them. Just a mm thick and put on like a rubber band.
For the timelapse, I would mark one of the nails, and have a photosensor trigger a picture, whenever that nail passed by it.
Yes. I would like to see a time lapse of this.
Very Nice!!!
Thanks for making this Bart. Very awesome! I would really like to build this and I see at least one comment from a viewer who says he is building it. Have you published plans or stls for the machine itself? I see you published the Matlab algorithm (again, thank you) but I don't see any instructions for the machine itself outside of your video narration... Maybe I'm missing something?
Inspired by this awesome project, I am building the similar machine. My drilling fixture lacks sturdiness. Wondering if I could look into yours (open cad?).
And I’d love to share my project with you as it progresses.
You could tie the camera timing to the zero position of the disc so everytime it passes zero it takes a picture or number of every full rotation of the disk.
I wager these pieces would look really slick encased in acrylic and removed from the back board (nails removed and edges sanded) all polished up and see-through.
Honestly my favorite part about this is hte turn table, since I was just wracking my brain for a way to do something very similar for the transverse axis of a home build telescope I'm working on that I want to get properly remote controlled with star tracking and the like.
I think if you shoot from directly above and the lighting is very even (ring flash around the camera and blackout the room) you can have the time lapse run through a video stabilizing software and have it fixed that way.
Very cool.
This is really impressive. Especially the quality of your workmanship and attention to detail is superb. Subscribed. Also about how many hours did this take take you to make including writing all the software?
Makes me wonder what it would look like if you actually 3D printed the code for the string allowing 3D printer to lay down the thin lines. Perhaps intentionally printing a bit above the surface to allow lines printed to gravity fall so you don’t have to worry about z height for each strand?
Great video and project!
Hey, instead of using rubber wheels, you can also try putting the bearings at a (almost) horizontal angle. It will dramatically decrease the noice, you can try it yourself by taking a bearing and running it perpendicular on a hard surface, and then try it alsmost liniar horizontal.
Glue down with contact cement, a rubber strip (scavenged from a bicycle innertube) on the table that the bearing rollers ride on. Rolling noise should be deattenuated.
How on earth this channel has only 6k subscribers! UA-cam needs to fix its algorithms to promote such channels! Very nice work mate.
Did you ever get your timelapse setup working? That sounds really brilliant.
Very nice project. Instead of rubber wheels you could try heat shrink tube around the bearings, maybe that's enough to make it less noisy.
Great video! Have you thought of putting a rubber sheet on the base instead of rubber wheels to keep it quieter? It might be cheaper and require less rework.
Killer project.
That is so super cool!
How does the translation from image to G-Code work? Does it use the radon transform?
🤯🤯🤯🤯 This is so good!
man, engineers are awesome
Just awesome 😀
That's absolutely amazing, how do you get the time to work on so many awesome in-depth projects?
Impressive! Loved the concept and execution. How did you get the nails in? By hand and a small hammer? Did you use any glue?
Nice! The time-lapse would work well if you apply rotational motion-tracking to the video to stabilize the art 👌
Cool project.
Could you try this on a wood ring so you can backlight the image?
My comment is simply that this s a quite brilliantly conceived and executed project. I would live to be your neighbour, we would have such fun!
Hello, your work is great.
Amazing Machine! Would you please share the detail list of used equipment and devices with us?
Absolutely fantastic! Did U sort out the time lapse idea? Maybe have an overhead camera rotating as the base is? Subscribed.
Love this video and how detailed you are about the technicalities. I am involved with an intricate machine I have developed over many years but am reluctant to share any details. What is wrong with me?