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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on November 24, 2009.
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For $2^4-1 ($15), you can get a muralizer "sketch" via snail mail! This is one of the test images, probably with glitches. If you're lucky, it'll have doodles about physics around the errant lines.
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For $2^8-1, you'll get one of the first beta muralizer proto-kits. These might not be the final kits, but they'll be close. They also come with beta firmware: you'll be an integral part of making muralizer awesome, and get early access to the platform for your art.
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For $2^8+2^7-1 ($383), you can pre-order the final kit, and be among the first to get your grubby paws on a printer that goes to 11 (feet).
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For $2^9-1, I will personally assemble a muralizer and send you the finished product early. It's like the beta program and the finished product thing, all wrapped up in one package. One fully-tested, known-good, line-drawing package.
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For $2^10-1, you put me under the needle. I'll have an artist permanently ink an entry from the geometric art series that inspired muralizer on my forearm. It's a nine-gon, listen to the podcasts for details, which would be a great way to cap off this project. If someone kicks in this money, I'll get that tattoo, and send the video of it happening (and me saying thanks) to the sponsor.
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Full-time hacker, used to work on artificial intelligence stuff, art-impaired, interested in geometric designs, the intersection of art and computers, and wearer of spiffy ties.
I quit that day job thing to develop community projects. As part of that, I'd love it if we could all work together to make the world a more beautiful and better informed (ie: awesomer) place.
I started sketching and programming in high school, and haven't ever really stopped either one. That said, I got pretty good at programming; my sketching... not so much. I still love doing it, though, and I like working on projects that allow me to express my artistic impulses with the precision and malleability of computers.
When I'm not working on computers or drawing, you'll find me tinkering with radios (I'm a ham: KJ6ANM), reading math textbooks (currently: statistical methods), and borrowing other people's cats (we all need to be disdainfully ignored sometimes).
The string system is sketchy. Forgive the pun.
You want to either:
-build a router table/pen plotter and mount it to this on it's side:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf...
(stack iron weights on a pipe which is welded to the frame to discourage tipping)
you can stick an inkjet head/spray paint can head on that, or you can google "pen plotter." your call.
OR:
You buy a big projector, some photoresist, acid, and spray paint.
Then go chemical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pysanka on the situation.
Come to think of it: making a beeswax reprap head for the routertable and then using a heat gun instead of acid is probably the most effective way of going about this.
There you have it:
You need $100 for the engine stand, $100 for the lead screws, $100 for reprap head, $100 for 80-20 extrusions, $200 for stepper motors, $50 for plywood, and $100 for counterweights(buckets of water/sandbags are cheaper than iron)
The more counterweights you use: the faster you can buzz the servos.
There's a linux distrobution that can run CNC G&M code. looks like you're handy with software so driving it shouldn't be a problem.