Artist Uses His Own Blood To Create A Self-Portrait

Artist Ted Lawson creates a life-size naked self-portrait drawn using his own blood as ink. The blood was fed directly to a CNC machine so it can draw blood from the source while it prints a portrait. The video below shows the printer in action with Lawson sipping juice to replenish his blood sugar.

Four Cable Drawing Machine

A cable driven drawing machine created by David Bynoe for the Telus Spark Science Center in Calgary, Alberta. The machine is controlled with LinuxCNC using a custom kinematics module and python script written by Kevin Loney. Each of the four stepper motors is connected to a pulley and string. By winding in or letting out string on each corner… Continue reading Four Cable Drawing Machine