Light painting with a CNC router

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Light painting with a CNC router

Arduino TeamMarch 6th, 2019

Maker Jeremy S. Cook has experimented with both CNC machinery and light painting in the past, and decided to combine these two skills into a new artistic device. 

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His setup uses a web app found here to program a CNC router as a sort of dot matrix printer. But instead of a pen, pencil, brush or other marking utensil, it uses a button as an input to the onboard Arduino Nano when pressed to the router’s surface.

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From this input, the Arduino then commands a diffused RGB LED to “mark” the surface with light, painting an image on the camera’s exposed sensor. 

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Code and print files are are available on GitHub if you’d like to try your own light art experiments!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_4NdVgSwuA?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

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Website: LINK

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