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PressurePen Stylus Adds Pressure Sensitivity to iPad, Android Tablets
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I’ve longed for a stylus that was actually good for drawing on my iPad, but after many purchases, I’m still not satisfied. What I really want is something that has a fairly fine tip, but can also produce pressure data. What I really want is to be able to use… |
May 24th, 2012
Wacom Realism Stylus Samples Colors from the Real World – If Only It Were Real
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I went and bought a stylus a few weeks ago, when I got hooked to OMGPOP’s Draw Something …game. The craze has since subsided, but I still use my stylus a lot to doodle and just draw simple sketches on my tablet. |
April 19th, 2012
Drawing Apparatus Turns Turntables into Spirograph Robot
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Turntables can certainly be used to make art – but I usually think of them as a tool for auditory creation, not visual so much. Not so in this project, which transformed a couple of ordinary turntables into a drawing machine.… |
March 24th, 2012
Piccolo CNC Drawing Bot: Budding Robotic Artist
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Would you expect anyone to be able to assemble a drawing robot for less than $70? Well, the Diatom design studio, run by Tiago Rorke and Greg Saul, collaborated with Cheng Xu and Huaishu Peng of the CMU CoDe Lab to create this pocket-sized robot kit. They’ve named it Piccolo.… |
February 28th, 2012
Zen Table: Etch A Sketch for the Rich
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If you’d like to have your own zen garden but don’t have the real estate or the skills to maintain one, Simon Hallam’s invention may be a good alternative. Hallam’s Zen Table has a glass-covered surface filled with silicone beads. A sculpting head creates shapes, patterns or images using the… |
February 7th, 2012
jaja: Pressure-Sensitive iPad Stylus Uses Sound Waves to Detect Pressure
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if you like to sketch on your iPad, you know there are a bunch of styluses on the market and coming out which try to improve upon the drawing and painting experience in apps like ArtRage. The issue is that because of the iPad’s capacitive screen, it’s difficult to detect… |
January 7th, 2012
Senseless Drawing Bot: Truth in Advertising
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With silly product names like “Wii”, “PSVita”, “Siri”, and “Xperia,” sometimes it’s nice to be able to look at the name of something, and then when you see it, you say “that’s exactly what I expected”. The Senseless Drawing Bot delivers precisely on its branding expectations.… |
October 19th, 2011
Awesome Geek Lunch Bag Art
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Lunch boxes are fine. You can get them in almost any geeky flavor you want, but with the graphics already on them. That takes some of the fun out of lunch. It’s far better to bring a bagged lunch and draw your own geek art on the brown bag while… |
September 9th, 2011
Wacom Inkling Combines Physical Drawings with the Digital World
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I’ve featured devices which let you digitize the images and text you write on paper before, but this new gadget from the master of drawing tablets, Wacom, decidedly improves upon the concept, capturing up to 1024 levels of pressure from drawings done on paper.… |
August 30th, 2011
Steam War Machines Go from Sketches to Awesome LEGO Creations
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Steampunk. We’ve all seen our fair share of it, and you might think that it’s pretty played out. That’s what I thought too, but then I saw Beau Donnan’s steampunk sketches.… |
August 17th, 2011
