iRobot Poster-making-Bot makes up for shaky hands

Making a good poster is hard, but most people wouldn't considering it harder than creating a robot to make the poster for you. Not so for Wyatt Felt, a member of instructables, who created a robot out of not much more than an iRobot Create, an old inkjet, and a sharpie which, put together, can draw perfectly spaced large lettering. Like an inkjet, it's made of individual pixels: but the PosterBot's pixels are the size of a dab of a large sharpie, so the poster is easily readable from a distance. If you want to create a PosterBot yourself, you'll have to have a fair degree of competency with C++, and a whole lot of peripheral kit to build the thing. You make sure to keep at least four PC-Mount DPDT 5v DC relays rated at 1A lying around, don't you?

[Bebofire @ Sep 9th 2007 3:15PM]

First post?!

Anyway this is so sweet...

I wonder if you can make a more precise image with a ballpoint pen instead of sharpie

[Haxxy @ Sep 9th 2007 3:44PM]

Probably not - as you can read, it's for making posters.

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Sep 9th 2007 10:31PM]

@Bebofire

If it's the pinnacle of your life to post first, then you live a sad life and do place last in everything else that you do. Sucks to be you.

[Bebofire @ Sep 10th 2007 7:11PM]

Um no I just never have before. I feel sorry for you because of how much pride you gain by randomly telling people they fail at everything just to make yourself feel competent.

[dj-kenpo @ Sep 9th 2007 3:54PM]

acctually I do have some of those lying around.

though I appear to be missing an irobot in my parts bin.

[ssuk @ Sep 9th 2007 4:09PM]

I have the DVD iRobot in a bin... Though that probably doesn't help...

[akijikan @ Sep 9th 2007 4:11PM]

Is it a making a poster about the song yatta?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatta

[Lyanto @ Sep 9th 2007 4:48PM]

"Yatta" is actually a word in Japanese. The closest thing to it that I can think of is "w00t".

[strider_mt2k @ Sep 9th 2007 4:30PM]

I'm pretty sure I have a few of those relays somewhere.

[carlosvaldesq @ Sep 9th 2007 5:15PM]

i thought that stupid people dont read this blogs,, cant you see its missing the W of Wyatt?! learn to think!

[DJ @ Sep 9th 2007 7:29PM]

WOW!!... Now that's true Creativity!!

[Shane @ Sep 9th 2007 7:44PM]

C'Mon, The Paper...Don't disappoint me...

****PREOWWWW****

[kev @ Sep 9th 2007 11:19PM]

'You know new paper, you keep sucking just enough to stay interesting.'

[FireFox @ Sep 9th 2007 8:06PM]

Saw that one on Hack a DAy

[Aidin Brown @ Sep 9th 2007 8:07PM]

i hope its not in the middle of writing "yatta"

[rootw0rm @ Sep 9th 2007 8:10PM]

Hack A Day is a good read isn't it?

p.s. Robot dude's name is Wyatt

[Simon @ Sep 10th 2007 4:11PM]

i actually have four PC-Mount DPDT 5v DC relays. Yes, i am sad.