You've never seen a Robot Etch a Sketch like this one

[@WilliamOsman2]

This is such a cool project! Thank you for sharing it at Open Sauce. I hope to see you again this year

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

We'd love to come demo again with more robots 🤠

[@gameplayer4817]

Robot ahh william

[@CarrotFarmer]

couldnt even do it on his alt grrr.....

[@seen-bc9eq]

what is up william

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

This was a great event to volunteer for, I'll be back this summer.

[@overthinkingisbad]

bad apple and doom are the only true machine/computer benchmarks. this is fantastic

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Thank you! We would do doom but we have to solve the latency so it is playable Maybe next time 🤔🤔🤔

[@maxgood42]

@@EveryFlavorRobot oh that's easy , between each frame just add /e sitchair2

[@BobCat0]

@@EveryFlavorRobot You need to move the stylus to the best starting spot for the next frame when you erase.

[@CaedmonOS]

​@@EveryFlavorRobot Use a carousel of etch a sketches.

[@sourcererseven3858]

@@EveryFlavorRobot There are pre-recorded playthroughs, that's how Olafur solved the latency of playing doom on a satellite in orbit 😉

[@Princessetch]

Thank you again for chatting with me about your incredible project! In the words of many a first-town NPC across generations of Pokemon games, "Technology is incredible!". And so is the team that brought this unique technology to life. True art indeed 🎨

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

We had a great time chatting with you! It was genuinely so fun and your gallery is so so sick

[@drewie_Butts]

It would be awesome if you did a short flip book style video like they did at the end!

[@EtchASketchGuy]

Robots are putting you out of work!

[@segamai]

Your art is SO impressive, grateful to EFOR for introducing you to us

[@VAXHeadroom]

I hadn't seen your work before - just amazing!! If they gave you a unit with encoders that would record your movements you could play it back!

[@BigRigCreates]

Was so glad to be able to meet you all and see this thing in person! The Bad Apple at the end was insane.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

BigRig!!!!! You had a hand in starting this all hahaha much love from EFR

[@pafnutiytheartist]

You should do bad apple as a separate upload with music, it'll be a steady stream of subscribers and the video will be randomly recommend to people in 5 years.

[@weeveferrelaine6973]

Definitely do this, I've randomly clicked on a tons of random bad apple videos before. It's a fun song, and nice seeing all the different art styles it's in

[@IunaIia]

I do love a good Bad Apple rabbit hole when it happens

[@RadeonVega64]

this^^

[@neonmidnights]

I was JUST thinking this

[@kevinpaul9458]

16:08 "Every step of this project has been cutting corners some way or another." Welcome to engineering!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Hahaha that's why it felt so crazy to have all the constraints lifted all the sudden!

[@andyrichter2714]

There’s no such thing as no constraints in engineering!

[@PCBWay]

This is so GOOD, Alex!👍 We are SOOO honored to be a part & Be there or be square at OpenSauce 2025

[@NostalgiaB8]

Can I come 👉👈

[@seen-bc9eq]

yo yo yo what's up.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

You guys made the badges?

[@Guzmanz]

I completely agree with Princessetch in how this project qualifies as art. The narrative and humanity that’s brought this creation to where it’s at today is an awesome expression of the love of engineering!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

After working so many late nights and even into the holidays to see this project finally come to an end - thank you :) Support like this keeps us going 🥰

[@d.sadster5684]

Also video making is an art form in out of itself

[@TheRealWulfderay]

Ah, to be young. I remember making all the same sort of mistakes when I was starting out as a software dev. You did a great job rolling with the punches and learning from your mistakes. The engineering gods sneered at your hubris, but ultimately gave you a pass. A core memory, to be sure. Well done!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Hahaha no plan survives contact with the enemy (system integration) or something like that

[@amourap]

Just imagine the entire Shrek movie in a Etch-a-Sketch timeline

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Maybe we should launch a Kickstarter for this We only get about 1000 drawings before the etch a sketches get wonky but if we built many robots in parallel it could do it I think

[@nikkiofthevalley]

​​@@EveryFlavorRobotYou could buy a few dozen or so etch a sketches and just replace them every 900 drawings or so. Would also be a great excuse to make it even faster or design your own, more robust etch a sketch.

[@cheplays2482]

I'd pay money to see this.

[@crazyfrog4275]

I have been flying building and tuning fpv drones for about 10 years now and yours was THE BEST explanation/demonstration of a pid loop I have seen. Excellent job you got my sub!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

I'm so happy I can help - it's always a tricky balance of intuitive explanation vs in depth nitty gritty -- but I'm glad it landed well for you :) I would check out matlab's series of u ever want the spicy maths behind it! The intuition will help you get the most from it

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Michael Reeves' glow up real yo

[@foodiusmaximus]

I thought it was Mike for a second

[@wthteevo]

On the "is this art" question, I think what the robot produces isn't the art but the robot itself. That's what you put work into and what impresses people. How have I not seen this channel before

[@spiderobert]

I had the same thought. The thing itself is the art.

[@Tydud3]

I remember watching the first part 7 months ago! Woah! Yall did such a great job!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Thanks!! Hahaha we have come along ways since then :)

[@DrRobotJay]

I’ve spent 20 years diving deep into PID controllers, and this video just blew me away. Hands down, the clearest and most concise explanation I’ve ever encountered. Bravo!

[@The.person.that.computers]

If far from spot, go. If less far from spot, go less. Very wisdom.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Don't forget "proportionally" to finish the haiku

[@JeffGeerling]

That comes from his wisdom tooth.

[@eastonsavage3625]

Well... you just taught me how PID works... I have been using auto PID learning for a while now but had no idea what each value did. Now I understand this much better. Thanks for that explanation!

[@butterscorch9591]

The cut away before the logo hits the corner is diabolical

[@tabsc3489]

I really appreciate you bringing PrincessEtch in to talk about art vs science and how computers and humans create art differently--and how that can extend to discussions about generative-AI art.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

We interviewed her for so long because she was so freaking nice and awesome to talk to By far my fav thing to come from our KZbin journey has been meeting people like her :)

[@Princessetch]

So glad to hear you enjoyed my contribution to the overall conversation! It was an honor to be a part of this video.

[@chiphartley8699]

this is truly the art of teaching in a fun way, you are amazing and i loved seeing my old "COW PALACE!!" i can not stress enough the importance of what you are doing in reaching out to other creatives and inspiring to learn, and as a chef i fully support the science in art and the art in science. please keep up the amazing work and if you ever need a professional chefs insight from 15 plus years around the globe. i have many a tale

[@opensaucelive]

can't wait to watch the Bee Movie on your Etch a Sketch at Open Sauce 2025!

[@Rouverius]

There is so much great to say about this but all I can think about is the DVD logo hitting the corner 🤣

[@charlesurrea1451]

We used to have specialized devices called plotters for printing plans. Somebody took an XY plotter and replaced the pen with a glue gun, making the world's first 3D printer.

[@ZeroGForce]

21:01 - "...an Etch-a-Sketch stylus stand-in?" _[throws a couple of brown Lego bricks on top]_ *_"PERRY_* THE ETCH-A-SKETCH STYLUS STAND-IN?!"

[@i0am0superBlast]

Man I wanna see the full thing of Bad Apple w/ music with this thing XD

[@amp86400]

Wow! Adding the animations was MUAH! Chef's kiss! Well done. 🤘

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Thank you!!! I got into blender so I could better communicate for just this reason 🤠🤠

[@liamthedevastator]

One of those awesome videos that combine knowledge and process with good cinematography and a thrilling narrative. Don't take this the wrong way but I was on the verge of skipping ahead for the whole video and just genuinely never actually skipped (it's just what I do, ADHD). I feel inspired and appreciate so much that you shared everything. Love you guys and will keep watching the channel!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Aw thanks for the compliments:) we poured our hearts into this dang project and video, so happy to see it's helpful -- we want to inspire and teach above all else. Robotics is for everyone! even if you almost skipped everything 😜 as long as you feel learned and entertained we don't mind Thanks for watching :)

[@heatshield]

This is an idea I’ve had since I was a kid. Nothing existed at the time to even come close to getting it done. I mean maybe just simple shapes repeated in different places, like the DVD logo bouncing around but that didn’t even exist back then. I would have probably just gone with a rectangle moving diagonally once, while transforming from mostly wide to mostly tall. LOL I’m sincerely impressed and the nostalgia is killin me! Great work. Really really cool. P.S. at the end, the Chicago Bean jumped off the screen at me instantly. As fast as the human brain operates. First frame. So in this case I’m congratulating your fine tuning of the software to pick out relevant boundaries from the mess that is any picture of that area. lol

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

This guy created the real Etch a Sketch from Toy Story and made it a reality

[@BooDevil65]

Old geek here, really enjoyed your journey! Gives me hope for our future. Makes me jealous I didn't grow up in this time and culture!

[@Ryan.Tronix3D]

Awesome stuff Alex and team! We're always thrilled to support innovative projects, even if it means squeezing in a "rush order" for some awesome makers. 😉

[@alecatmew]

Was randomly recommended your video, and I love the scope of it! The tech, the event vlog, the artist chat - everything tied together to make such a wonderful package. Thanks for sharing your project, I'm in awe.

[@Malao558]

Excellent work, everyone! The final product is insanely impressive. Maybe giving it a concept of shading would be a good next step? Allow it to create blocks of black and white as well as just lines. Also, do you have more footage of the interview you did? I’d love to hear more about the more artistic side of etching a sketch without using a robot.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

We're releasing the full interview on Patreon soon! Thanks for watching Malao :)

[@Alan_Hans__]

Super cool. You know you're a geek when someone shows a video from opensauce and you realise that you are subbed to a fair portion of the people in the video.

[@arlomaguire7363]

Banger of a project, as someone who looks at controls in my spare time ur explanation for a PID controller is pretty damn near perfect.

[@Jackpkmn]

You might not think of what your machine produces as art, and maybe it isn't. But your machine is art. You created it, you poured all of the same time and work any artist would put into any other work into it.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

[@AlterLynx]

I used to ask people with poor connections if they played on an etch-a-sketch

[@gfdggdfgdgf]

To make it look more hand drawn you could look into line halftone patterns and/or cross stitch conversion. And maybe an adapted 2 bit dithering algorithm.

[@avasam06]

Did you play around with the contrast for the Bad Apple part or is that just an optical illusion?

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

You're not crazy, it do be a little hint of movie magic to help the negative effect of the original bad apple video 😉

[@alexschott9567]

I was waiting for Bad Apple, I'm glad you followed the law. Super cool build

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

We just had to right? Thanks for the support :)

[@classical_madness5926]

So glad I found this channel. The stuff y’all do is amazing.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Glad to have you with us on the journey 👋🤠

[@dan1948]

As someone who has coded PID controllers before... that was the best intuitive overview of PIDs ive seen.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

It was the haiku that did it for you wasn't it? Hahaha jokes aside though, thanks a ton for the support and watching :) I've been kind of scared if we hit the right balance of complex vs watchable with the PID explanation, people seem to like it though!

[@williebrort]

This had a great sponsor segment. GG, beautiful project and a nice video.

[@IanJohnstonblog]

This made my day… Thank you for sharing that journey. Keep doing what makes you happy. The joy of learning and sharing your knowledge is a wonderful thing to watch.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

We love to share and teach! We'll keep em coming hahaha Thanks for watching and the support:)

[@trashj8778]

Ive been watching 'youtube makers' since before there was KZbin, you are one of the most compelling storytellers ive come across in a long time

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Aw shucks you'll make me blush! hahaha trying to keep em coming this year :) we just really feel like theres a lot of value in sharing the stories behind these robots and showing people that anyone can do robotics - you can make mistakes, oversights, and inefficient decisions, and still work in this field. thanks for watching and the kind words :)

[@draakisback]

To me the most interesting part of this video was the talk about lost motion and cursors. I am the software engineer and I've worked on physics simulators, graphicsl algs and other similar systems. What I'm a bit curious about is if the lost motion on the etch-a-sketch changes over time due to wear and tear? I feel like there should be a useful algorithm that you could use to figure out the lost motion without having to do it manually. If you added a camera to the system, you could have it draw a test box without accounting for the slippage and then the algorithm could dynamically insert this value. Obviously this would only be useful if the slippage becomes much more varied overtime. As an aside, maybe because you're just using one line but all of this kind of reminds me of the logo programming language. It's been years but back when I first got into programming, I used logo to understand vector graphics and various other concepts. Keep up the good work, subscribed. Do you guys accept PRs and contributions on your code?

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

So many great notes here! 1) thanks for watching :) 2) the lost motion totally changes as we use the screen more. Around 500 drawings in the results are much sloppier - you can see in the DVD logo bouncing how bad this can effect the results as we had to switch it out half way through to a fresh one. The lost motion is not the same in all places on the screen with one side of each axis being tight and the other being loose. 3) camera calibration would 100% be the way to go on this one, I definitely agree. Both for re-zeroing and for calibrating backlash effect. 4) we would love some PR's and contributions :)))) we are not trying to make KZbin videos and projects for fame and fortune - we are trying to build an open source robotics community that is welcoming to all backgrounds and leads by example. This etchbot project is one step towards a powerful example project for people to modify into any two axis gantry type robot they want to make!

[@draakisback]

@EveryFlavorRobot interesting, I don't have much experience with hardware and robotics, but I have worked on software for airplanes and other similar systems in the past. I'll be sure to keep an eye on your GitHub and videos and contribute where I can.

[@mcses7]

Bad Apple on a freaking etch a sketch is hilarious to me bro. A sub is well deserved.

[@Mal1t1aTV]

I think this is an awesome project! I would love to see you guys upload the full version of the bad apple demo :)

[@robb233]

Have you considered a text-based dumb terminal / tele-type scenario? that would be relatively interactive and closer the the 'computer monitor' aesthetic. ie. keystrokes get rendered left-to-right in realtime, press enter, computer replies with one line of text, etc. Only needs to erase screen after several lines of text. starts again at the top. cool project.

[@skullcharger887]

Im glad i subbed! The logo bouncing around made me smile irl. Excited to see what u guyz do next!!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Hahaha thanks for the sub! We are probably etched out for a while, but there's plenty of robotics fun times coming up and in progress:)

[@TheSuckerOfTheWorld]

I feel like if you manage to add infill (maybe even with dithering), it's 100% complete

[@MakeRobotics]

Nice video. I made my own etch-a-sketch drawing robot with stepper motors. I used klipper for the operating system with a PI for speed. When trying to speed it up I broke one though. I bought a second one and am a bit reluctant to break it again :). I had the idea to cut out a portion of the etch a sketch and put a mini fan inside of it to reset it so you don't have to flip it over every time. It's a mess though once you open it up. Didn't complete that test yet but maybe something you want to explore as well! good luck!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

We were also considering a fan inside! Would love to see it erase automagically

[@JeffGeerling]

@@EveryFlavorRobothonestly I wonder if there's some way we can get Mattel or whoever makes the thing nowadays to provide some samples that are more hackable. You have to think this would be the perfect free marketing for them!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

You know, I think one of us reached out to them to see if they would chat with but didn't hear any response 🤔 but it would be a fun time so maybe we should re-try

[@SOHCHEAD]

Easy Sub and Share This video hit at just the right time for me. I’m a mechanical engineer that specializes in manufacturing systems with a decent enough background and ability to create but the past 4 years on top of massive medical issues has really taken me out. This was a great reminder that where you live isn’t everything. Having the right attitude and aptitude is huge and you can still grow even if you’re in an isolated area. Awesome content, I’m looking forward to your next endeavor. I can jump on your discord at some point, my main strengths are design for manufacturing optimization (specifically in precision machining and assembly). I’d be happy to help or consult on anything if the need arises.

[@Kwanster78]

Holy moly what she can do are truly quite impressive on an etch-a-sketch

[@HideyHoleOrg]

Would love to see the skyline of Pittsburgh done by your bot! The hard industrial lines and art deco styles combined with the organic shapes of the hills, rivers, and fountain would be quite the challenge for it!

[@caseheroes9835]

Was awesome to see this in person at OpenSauce, and I'm glad to hear that youre continuing to iterate and improve on the design! Plus, my mom and I even got to make a brief cameo at 0:08!

[@joecrisp9060]

Omg, this is the first PID explanation that makes intuitive sense to me! I have been around them since the early days of the drone scene, but never could quite grasp it intuitively. Thank you!!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

I'm so glad you found it helpful! I went back and forth on how complex I wanted to go into it and landed on intuition over code syntax Thanks for watching, glad to help :)

[@hazernestmillet1124]

Create custom etch a sketch using coreXY and use micro stepper motor with high current then run it super fast also use Gcode and klipper

[@coco805]

Wow that was awesome. Congrats on the great design work!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Thanks a bunch! We poured a lot of ourselves into this one :)

[@AyranGonzales]

I just thought of this, if you use this machine with some algorithm help for a bit more texture from a full picture u could quite quick replicate a movie directly into a draw style, color it in in post edits and that shit would go fire

[@gwoonryan8665]

This is so freaking cool! I love that I have discovered your channel!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Yay! Thank you!

[@PitaParody]

That is just crazy! thought you had a million and something subs before i checked if I was subscribed! keep up the great work!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

One day we'll get there 🤧 thanks for being here on our journey:))

[@hagstruan1140]

Same! I was like "44.5K whaaaaaa?" and hit that sub button

[@WarttHog]

Reminds me a bit of AlphaPhoenix' recent rocketing to big numbers, mostly because you both love the story in the tech, and you're excited to tell it in your personal way, without getting bogged down earth passing the game! Really enjoyed that video. Plus, isn't it just so awesome to sleep, take a brief breather, then show the world how cool the project was in your mind? Whenever we have hackathons at work I always want to take another day or two to properly finish it! Thanks for sharing your journey!

[@andrewhofmann5453]

You all should be very proud of yourselves, this was no small accomplishment!

[@EvilSpyBoy]

The 20th Century logo kinda makes me want to see some frame by frame recreations. Trying to do a 1/4 speed reproduction of a movie would be a pretty good stress test I guess.

[@matthewd3253]

Awesome project and video. Look forward to seeing more of what you do.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Thanks!! we look forward to showing you more ;)

[@IamMathenge]

Princess etch is a proof that Ai will never take over art if true artists are there

[@chadbertrand1460]

You should work with Princess Etch to create a device that records her movements when etching a new image, so they can be perfectly recreated by automation later.

[@alysemarie8313]

As someone who left software engineering as a profession, that constant feeling of not believing you did well... It's because you learned so much that if you did it over again it would be better. The beauty of doing this as a hobby is your mistakes are so low stakes. You're not going to bring down a $3 billion company's ecommerce site with the wrong SQL query if it's just an etch a sketch in your apartment. You learn from your mistakes and you need to enjoy this process. It is necessary to accept your failures, and apply things you learned in your next project. Don't let the stretch goals distract from what you've accomplished! Every project has "nice to haves" that we back-burnered. ❤ Even at $3 billion companies.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

You have exactly nailed this point that we couldn't quite place - Thanks for sharing the wisdom 🤠 and thanks for watching and supporting! Hopefully we can encourage more people to build more things and learn about robotics :)

[@ExcessiveOverkill]

Looks awesome, can’t wait to see what opensauce 2025 brings 👀

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

It was awesome meeting there last time 🤠 hope to see y'all there in July!

[@kuromiLayfe]

hehe always loved doing this using a autoitv3 script on my laptop.. you would input any image (as long as it didn’t have alpha values) and it would take over the cursor and redraw it in whatever art application you had open.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

That sounds awesome

[@BejaeIngate]

Finally! A monitor worse than gaming on a printer. It is now only a matter of time before Basically Homeless tries to play rainbow six siege on an etch a sketch. Love the concept man!

[@jvebarnes]

I have to wonder if it would be possible to do an analysis of Princess Etch's drawing style and create an algorithm for path analysis. It's obvious it takes her hours to do a sketch and yet using the robot etch would it not be faster. Maybe making a setup to record her knob movements on several drawings and then using AI to extrapolate from new images. Pretty sure it would be worth a phd in machine learning and robotics if you don't already have one.

[@squa_81]

Let's be honest, keeping that perfect corner hit from us is evil and this is a very cool project!

[@Sl1m0b]

This seems to be a very cool project!

[@xenotiic8356]

I need the full version of bad apple so bad! Insanely impressive work!

[@cowabungacreation]

This is absolutely amazing...I must learn your ways!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

@@cowabungacreation crazy thing is we have a discord just for that!

[@cowabungacreation]

@@EveryFlavorRobot you son of a bitch...I'm in!

[@satibel]

suggestion to make the text better: OCR, erase the bounding box of each character and fill in with pre-made text assets. also another thing you could do for videos is saving where travel lines are and travel along lines to the closest one so it doesn't flicker as much. you could also add different infill patterns to add shading. for example you can draw loops with the distance between loops being the darkness of the picture. there's also variable density space filling curves but I can't seem to find a great one, probably the easiest is "Hilbert's Space-filling Curve for Regions with Holes" with the order depending on the darkness, but it only has a few levels .

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

All of this seems like good ideas for our next iteration! We might be a bit burnt out of etching for a bit but I like these thoughts. Thanks for watching and sharing! Hilberts curves are def something I will keep in mind :)

[@radical_ans]

Oh wow. Never realized yinz were local. Hello neighbor!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Big fan of the burgh

[@Cinema_Mechanics]

So good guys! Can’t wait for the feature film.

[@JenkinsUSA]

1:28 Who thought he was slipping into a cow suit?

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Moo

[@Kian-hm2ku]

BRO, i just found my PID explanation video for the programming team of my robotics team.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Let's go!! Fun fact - swapnil and I were on the same robotics team in college and that's how we started working together hahaha

[@AyanAbbas1000]

Damnnnnnn damn damn damn! The girl video animation in the etch a sketch was soo good

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Thanks! We were scared to get copy right struck so we didn't include it, BUT you should search "bad apple" and there's a lot of time lapse and animations similar to it, I bet you'll like

[@admiraladama5877]

I wonder if you could sketch the supporters name? Assuming it can convey the text easily enough. Maybe a cursive font for smaller text?

[@jordanlarson6488]

The stop motion segment starting at 26:26 blew my mind. Mesmerizing, never seen anything like that in my life. I think using this tech to make a short film would be the one of the coolest animations ever done.

[@jesterjunk]

There is an audience for a perpetual live stream of the Etch a Sketch doing its thing.

[@ideaxgaming5647]

If you think about it you could make it draw in grey scale by changing how dense the drawing is effectively giving you black and white images

[@Peter-i7y1q]

Dude this is the best visualization of backlash I saw so far! I will steal it (and of cause quote you)

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

The backlash explaininator will remove backlash confusion from the tri state area 😈😈😈😈

[@JFF-space]

I have one suggestion It seems that the line generation algorithm that you have seems to be creating different line path every time for the same image. This makes the time-lapse little blocky (not smooth transition) For example: When it was making your channel logo (26:14), everytime the line was crossing the letters from different positions. If you can avoid that it will make it look exponentially smoother.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

You're totally right that it generates different gcodes! This is because to solve the optimization problem, we use a "genetic" algorithm that does a little bit of randomized searching through options of how to order the lines to draw and which "jumps" to add in. Perhaps one day we will switch to a more determinate solution, but for now this is the best balance of speed and optimization 😅

[@ransomgreen967]

Great video! Awesome work by you and your team!

[@dh2032]

At 15:27, is that Electroboom I see there?

[@himarei]

I think it is art. I don't think what the robot does is art, but the robot itself is art, the process of making an animated etch-a-sketch is art, even if each drawing isn't artistic.

[@Panthera_Leo_]

I think we need the full Bad Apple + music played on this incredible display

[@JerryWoo96]

KZbin needs a full version of Bad Apple to add to the collection.

[@BackdraftAirsoft]

Should make a Rolodex version. When one moves out of the way the next is already done, and swinging around wipes the screen. Then you can have it basically be a flip book

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Oh yeah we think this is a great idea A bit burnt out of etching and sketching for a bit but when we revisit, I think this is the route forward

[@Imjaja64]

an idea to add the "texture" aspect which you said you had no controll over is for every group of color to have an assosiated pattern, and have the computer factor it into the path. kinda like how you drew williams beard, except every color gets a texture. dense grids for darks, light meshes for mid, and empty spaces for brights. just an idea

[@CalebKeiper]

I remember seeing you guys at like 2k subs and being super impressed - glad to be offically an og EFoR fan, can wait to see what you do next!!

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

thanks for sticking with us from the start ;)

[@bytex2]

Just amazing. This is art and science. 😊

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

That's what we're all about over here ;) thanks for watching

[@saltofine8]

This is awesome! Did you consider using stepper motors tho? They make great paperweights

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Stepper? I hardly even knower

[@TommyBo42]

Pretty awesome! Question tho - why do the anchor lines change from frame to frame? For instance, when the logo is bouncing around, why not have the anchor points always be the two closest corners? Could help add to the fluidity.

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Thanks for watching and the great question! The gcode generated, even for a single photo uploaded twice to the robot, will be different. This is due to our choice of a genetic algorithm for the optimization step. It was the best balance of speed to result quality -- but a downside is the non-deterministic solutions it provides! Ideally in the future we will have it optimize over a rolling window of 3 drawings at a time to account for the end and starting points of the following frames so it can draw them without anchor points or borders!

[@TommyBo42]

@@EveryFlavorRobot oh, that would be cool for sure. Although, I kinda of like having the frame around the animation. Sort of grounds it. I'm only imagining in my head, so I may be wrong tho :) Thanks for the answer!

[@IndianaAnimates]

This seems like an idea a little kid would come up with and its AMAZING

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

Hahaha we all are kids in the inside aren't we 🙂‍↕️