The robot that draws the walls
The question is easy with a complex solution, until now … What if you could instantly turn the wall of your architecture or design studio, office or your living room into a huge canvas to capture your architectural projects and ideas and also update them in time real?. Uff!… I know, because we are talking about a great tool, and that is what this technological marvel that we present is about, the so-called Scribit.
The Italian architect Carlo Ratti has created a robot that practices drawing or writing on walls while it is connected to the Internet, capable of recreating drawings, plans, texts, ideas … etc. with a high technical quality and that we can also erase at will.
"An architect can put his drawings and plans on the wall or a designer can project his prototypes and ideas to have an overall visual"
“With this tool, an architect can put his drawings and plans on the wall. A restaurant can post the menu of the day on its wall. A designer can project their prototypes and ideas or someone who loves art can project a Van Gogh on their bedroom wall ”, commented the Italian architect.
The little Scribit robot moves in a 2-axis plane through vertical surfaces such as walls, windows, blackboards or plaster, drawing images or text while we are creating it on the computer.
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Users use software to upload images or text to the robot that is connected to the Internet and inform it of the dimensions of the space in which the content will be drawn.
The robot is also capable of reproducing any type of data in real time, including notes, messages, images or graphics. Once the user submits their digital information to the device, the chartplotter instantly reproduces it.
Thanks to a patented technology, the robot is equipped with four “erasable” markers of different colors, that is, it also has the capacity of an “eraser”. The marks made by the robot can be reversed by an erasure process. Once the user enters the relevant information, Scribit knows where the previous content has been drawn and will follow its shape until the image or text is completely erased.
Although the little robot comes with its own proprietary "reversible" ink markers in red, blue, yellow and black that leave no trace, any ordinary non-erasable marker can also be mounted.
According to the architect, it will also offer users access to a wide range of digital content through a series of applications, where institutions or companies will be able to develop and upload any type of content.
It can be bought from the kickstarter crowdfunding platform and of course, the price does not seem expensive to us for the possibilities it can encompass.
And remember that we were already talking about this typology of robots with the crochet technique in fabric structures and innovative architecture.
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