The Drawmaton: A Mechanical Drawing Arm Kit Inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Robot Knight’

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The Drawmation is a hand-powered drawing arm kit that was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th century “Robot Knight.” The hand comes in three versions: Robot, Gambler, and Slayer and can draw 8 sketches: Ladies Portrait, Man’s Portrait, Horse, Skull, Tulip, Dragon, Elephant and Swans.

Many consider da Vinci’s robots to be the oldest examples of an early proto-computer because they contained hardware, the robot itself, and software, wooden cams, which were read-only and interchangeable. Leonardo called these wooded cams ‘petals’ as they reminded him of petals on a flower. A set of programming pedals for our Drawmaton stores 1 kilobit of pre-defined motion data. When the petals complete one full rotation, information is sent down the robot’s arm and into the hand which draws the picture with the pen.

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