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T-Shirts

Crayonbot Does T-Shirts
 
I made an alternate non-motorized pen gripper and bolted a sharpie in. One screw holds the pen in place and the other is a stop so that the pens stick out the same distance if I change colors. I set up a bot config at 100x100 B&W with no pen swaps.
 
When looking for something to render, you can never go wrong with The Teapot. My wife laughed at the tea-shirt pun and I pretended like I was clever and had intended it all along.
 
The sharpie lays down a lot of ink. I ironed these after they dried so they will hopefully hold up in the wash. Building a bot specifically for making T-shirts would only require 3 servos since it would need no gripper or turret.
 
Rendering a greyscale image with sharpie dots requires some image tweaking beyond what my robot's webcam interpreter can do. Here, I resample an image to 100x100 and convert it to B&W using a halftoning filter.