Thank you again for chatting with me about your incredible project! In the words of many a first-town NPC across generations of Pokemon games, "Technology is incredible!". And so is the team that brought this unique technology to life. True art indeed 🎨
I completely agree with Princessetch in how this project qualifies as art. The narrative and humanity that’s brought this creation to where it’s at today is an awesome expression of the love of engineering!
After working so many late nights and even into the holidays to see this project finally come to an end - thank you :) Support like this keeps us going 🥰
Ah, to be young. I remember making all the same sort of mistakes when I was starting out as a software dev. You did a great job rolling with the punches and learning from your mistakes. The engineering gods sneered at your hubris, but ultimately gave you a pass. A core memory, to be sure. Well done!
Maybe we should launch a Kickstarter for this We only get about 1000 drawings before the etch a sketches get wonky but if we built many robots in parallel it could do it I think
@@EveryFlavorRobotYou could buy a few dozen or so etch a sketches and just replace them every 900 drawings or so. Would also be a great excuse to make it even faster or design your own, more robust etch a sketch.
I have been flying building and tuning fpv drones for about 10 years now and yours was THE BEST explanation/demonstration of a pid loop I have seen. Excellent job you got my sub!
I'm so happy I can help - it's always a tricky balance of intuitive explanation vs in depth nitty gritty -- but I'm glad it landed well for you :) I would check out matlab's series of u ever want the spicy maths behind it! The intuition will help you get the most from it
You should do bad apple as a separate upload with music, it'll be a steady stream of subscribers and the video will be randomly recommend to people in 5 years.
Definitely do this, I've randomly clicked on a tons of random bad apple videos before. It's a fun song, and nice seeing all the different art styles it's in
this is truly the art of teaching in a fun way, you are amazing and i loved seeing my old "COW PALACE!!" i can not stress enough the importance of what you are doing in reaching out to other creatives and inspiring to learn, and as a chef i fully support the science in art and the art in science. please keep up the amazing work and if you ever need a professional chefs insight from 15 plus years around the globe. i have many a tale
I really appreciate you bringing PrincessEtch in to talk about art vs science and how computers and humans create art differently--and how that can extend to discussions about generative-AI art.
We interviewed her for so long because she was so freaking nice and awesome to talk to By far my fav thing to come from our TH-cam journey has been meeting people like her :)
One of those awesome videos that combine knowledge and process with good cinematography and a thrilling narrative. Don't take this the wrong way but I was on the verge of skipping ahead for the whole video and just genuinely never actually skipped (it's just what I do, ADHD). I feel inspired and appreciate so much that you shared everything. Love you guys and will keep watching the channel!
Aw thanks for the compliments:) we poured our hearts into this dang project and video, so happy to see it's helpful -- we want to inspire and teach above all else. Robotics is for everyone! even if you almost skipped everything 😜 as long as you feel learned and entertained we don't mind Thanks for watching :)
Reminds me a bit of AlphaPhoenix' recent rocketing to big numbers, mostly because you both love the story in the tech, and you're excited to tell it in your personal way, without getting bogged down earth passing the game! Really enjoyed that video. Plus, isn't it just so awesome to sleep, take a brief breather, then show the world how cool the project was in your mind? Whenever we have hackathons at work I always want to take another day or two to properly finish it! Thanks for sharing your journey!
You might not think of what your machine produces as art, and maybe it isn't. But your machine is art. You created it, you poured all of the same time and work any artist would put into any other work into it.
Omg, this is the first PID explanation that makes intuitive sense to me! I have been around them since the early days of the drone scene, but never could quite grasp it intuitively. Thank you!!
I'm so glad you found it helpful! I went back and forth on how complex I wanted to go into it and landed on intuition over code syntax Thanks for watching, glad to help :)
On the "is this art" question, I think what the robot produces isn't the art but the robot itself. That's what you put work into and what impresses people. How have I not seen this channel before
This made my day… Thank you for sharing that journey. Keep doing what makes you happy. The joy of learning and sharing your knowledge is a wonderful thing to watch.
27:01 i dont rlly know how etch a sketchs work so maybe this doesnt make sense but wouldn’t it be possible to get rid of those lines that draw from the border to whatever’s being drawn in the middle if you got the “cursor” to wherever it needs to be to begin with, then erasing the drawing and then just starting from the middle? it’d get rid of the border too but then u could just use the actual border itself as the border
@ when u erase does it change the location of the cursor/ is it possible to erase without changing the location of the cursor? Bc if u can move the cursor, and then erase without changing where the cursor is then I think there’s a miscommunication? for a drawing like that box logo thats floating in the middle of the screen, the only gap is the box itself. so if u just start where you wanted the box to begin with you don’t need to cross any gaps. obviously you’d have to scrap the border but the border doesn’t really add anything in a lot of cases. but ya obviously not possible to avoid if its not possible to reliably erase the screen with the cursor at a specific point. It’d also only be useful in drawings where there’s only one thing floating in the middle, if there were 2 box logos for example then you would definitely need a line to cross the gap
@@noThankyou-g5c you can only erase the whole screen at once. You can’t selectively erase where a line was drawn. From memory it’s a glass screen and aluminium powder on it. The pen scratches powder off, leaving a line where it has been. To erase the whole screen you invert the device and shake, this covers the glass panel with surplus powder from the base of the device and fills in any lines that have been drawn.
Excellent work, everyone! The final product is insanely impressive. Maybe giving it a concept of shading would be a good next step? Allow it to create blocks of black and white as well as just lines. Also, do you have more footage of the interview you did? I’d love to hear more about the more artistic side of etching a sketch without using a robot.
Awesome stuff Alex and team! We're always thrilled to support innovative projects, even if it means squeezing in a "rush order" for some awesome makers. 😉
Nice video. I made my own etch-a-sketch drawing robot with stepper motors. I used klipper for the operating system with a PI for speed. When trying to speed it up I broke one though. I bought a second one and am a bit reluctant to break it again :). I had the idea to cut out a portion of the etch a sketch and put a mini fan inside of it to reset it so you don't have to flip it over every time. It's a mess though once you open it up. Didn't complete that test yet but maybe something you want to explore as well! good luck!
Was awesome to see this in person at OpenSauce, and I'm glad to hear that youre continuing to iterate and improve on the design! Plus, my mom and I even got to make a brief cameo at 0:08!
This is an idea I’ve had since I was a kid. Nothing existed at the time to even come close to getting it done. I mean maybe just simple shapes repeated in different places, like the DVD logo bouncing around but that didn’t even exist back then. I would have probably just gone with a rectangle moving diagonally once, while transforming from mostly wide to mostly tall. LOL I’m sincerely impressed and the nostalgia is killin me! Great work. Really really cool. P.S. at the end, the Chicago Bean jumped off the screen at me instantly. As fast as the human brain operates. First frame. So in this case I’m congratulating your fine tuning of the software to pick out relevant boundaries from the mess that is any picture of that area. lol
To me the most interesting part of this video was the talk about lost motion and cursors. I am the software engineer and I've worked on physics simulators, graphicsl algs and other similar systems. What I'm a bit curious about is if the lost motion on the etch-a-sketch changes over time due to wear and tear? I feel like there should be a useful algorithm that you could use to figure out the lost motion without having to do it manually. If you added a camera to the system, you could have it draw a test box without accounting for the slippage and then the algorithm could dynamically insert this value. Obviously this would only be useful if the slippage becomes much more varied overtime. As an aside, maybe because you're just using one line but all of this kind of reminds me of the logo programming language. It's been years but back when I first got into programming, I used logo to understand vector graphics and various other concepts. Keep up the good work, subscribed. Do you guys accept PRs and contributions on your code?
Thanks! We were scared to get copy right struck so we didn't include it, BUT you should search "bad apple" and there's a lot of time lapse and animations similar to it, I bet you'll like
It was the haiku that did it for you wasn't it? Hahaha jokes aside though, thanks a ton for the support and watching :) I've been kind of scared if we hit the right balance of complex vs watchable with the PID explanation, people seem to like it though!
Would love to see the skyline of Pittsburgh done by your bot! The hard industrial lines and art deco styles combined with the organic shapes of the hills, rivers, and fountain would be quite the challenge for it!
I think it is art. I don't think what the robot does is art, but the robot itself is art, the process of making an animated etch-a-sketch is art, even if each drawing isn't artistic.
The 20th Century logo kinda makes me want to see some frame by frame recreations. Trying to do a 1/4 speed reproduction of a movie would be a pretty good stress test I guess.
an idea to add the "texture" aspect which you said you had no controll over is for every group of color to have an assosiated pattern, and have the computer factor it into the path. kinda like how you drew williams beard, except every color gets a texture. dense grids for darks, light meshes for mid, and empty spaces for brights. just an idea
To make it look more hand drawn you could look into line halftone patterns and/or cross stitch conversion. And maybe an adapted 2 bit dithering algorithm.
This was a GREAT video to watch, but i do have a question, couldnt you guys write a program that makes each part of an image a value? like the lighter parts would be 1, slightly darker 2, and so on, cause if thats possible, youll just be able do make actual high quality photos
That's a great question! Thanks for watching and asking :) We tried for a bit to handle image segmentation and shading - we agree it should be easy to assign hatching values and stuff to the image sections, but we found it didn't look as good as optimizing for good edge detection. I really want to revisit this idea in the future! But for now we are kind of etch a sketched out, and especially if this video doesn't do that well then we need to go do stuff to keep the lights on hahaha So, yeah tldr; you're spot on! - Alex
@@EveryFlavorRobot I think some good photo-to-sketch algorithms exist, some of them using AI. Would that be something you could implement? Also, on the subject of whether THIS video will do well: I just got here. The TH-cam algorithm put this video in my recommends. I've never seen or heard of you before. I subbed in the first minute of the video, and I'm probably going to go back and see what I've missed so far, and binge watch everything. You guys are awesome, and if the TH-cam algo keeps doing its thing, you'll probably hit a million subscribers really soon.
I'd say this is art... Just not what it's producing more or less, lol. The piece in and of itself is most DEFINITELY art! Most people can't just "art up" an art machine lmao!
Should make a Rolodex version. When one moves out of the way the next is already done, and swinging around wipes the screen. Then you can have it basically be a flip book
suggestion to make the text better: OCR, erase the bounding box of each character and fill in with pre-made text assets. also another thing you could do for videos is saving where travel lines are and travel along lines to the closest one so it doesn't flicker as much. you could also add different infill patterns to add shading. for example you can draw loops with the distance between loops being the darkness of the picture. there's also variable density space filling curves but I can't seem to find a great one, probably the easiest is "Hilbert's Space-filling Curve for Regions with Holes" with the order depending on the darkness, but it only has a few levels .
I just thought of this, if you use this machine with some algorithm help for a bit more texture from a full picture u could quite quick replicate a movie directly into a draw style, color it in in post edits and that shit would go fire
Those are some great updates - animation is really cool! Can't wait to see what you come up with next! Maybe you need to program an icon viewer? Or just name your files better?
This is such a cool project! Thank you for sharing it at Open Sauce. I hope to see you again this year
We'd love to come demo again with more robots 🤠
Robot ahh william
couldnt even do it on his alt grrr.....
what is up william
bad apple and doom are the only true machine/computer benchmarks. this is fantastic
Thank you! We would do doom but we have to solve the latency so it is playable
Maybe next time 🤔🤔🤔
@@EveryFlavorRobot oh that's easy , between each frame just add /e sitchair2
@@EveryFlavorRobot You need to move the stylus to the best starting spot for the next frame when you erase.
@@EveryFlavorRobot Use a carousel of etch a sketches.
@@EveryFlavorRobot There are pre-recorded playthroughs, that's how Olafur solved the latency of playing doom on a satellite in orbit 😉
Was so glad to be able to meet you all and see this thing in person! The Bad Apple at the end was insane.
BigRig!!!!! You had a hand in starting this all hahaha much love from EFR
Thank you again for chatting with me about your incredible project! In the words of many a first-town NPC across generations of Pokemon games, "Technology is incredible!". And so is the team that brought this unique technology to life. True art indeed 🎨
We had a great time chatting with you! It was genuinely so fun and your gallery is so so sick
It would be awesome if you did a short flip book style video like they did at the end!
Robots are putting you out of work!
This is so GOOD, Alex!👍 We are SOOO honored to be a part & Be there or be square at OpenSauce 2025
Can I come 👉👈
yo yo yo what's up.
16:08 "Every step of this project has been cutting corners some way or another." Welcome to engineering!
Hahaha that's why it felt so crazy to have all the constraints lifted all the sudden!
There’s no such thing as no constraints in engineering!
I completely agree with Princessetch in how this project qualifies as art. The narrative and humanity that’s brought this creation to where it’s at today is an awesome expression of the love of engineering!
After working so many late nights and even into the holidays to see this project finally come to an end - thank you :)
Support like this keeps us going 🥰
Also video making is an art form in out of itself
Ah, to be young. I remember making all the same sort of mistakes when I was starting out as a software dev. You did a great job rolling with the punches and learning from your mistakes. The engineering gods sneered at your hubris, but ultimately gave you a pass. A core memory, to be sure. Well done!
Hahaha no plan survives contact with the enemy (system integration) or something like that
Just imagine the entire Shrek movie in a Etch-a-Sketch timeline
Maybe we should launch a Kickstarter for this
We only get about 1000 drawings before the etch a sketches get wonky but if we built many robots in parallel it could do it I think
@@EveryFlavorRobotYou could buy a few dozen or so etch a sketches and just replace them every 900 drawings or so. Would also be a great excuse to make it even faster or design your own, more robust etch a sketch.
I'd pay money to see this.
I remember watching the first part 7 months ago! Woah! Yall did such a great job!
Thanks!! Hahaha we have come along ways since then :)
I have been flying building and tuning fpv drones for about 10 years now and yours was THE BEST explanation/demonstration of a pid loop I have seen. Excellent job you got my sub!
I'm so happy I can help - it's always a tricky balance of intuitive explanation vs in depth nitty gritty -- but I'm glad it landed well for you :)
I would check out matlab's series of u ever want the spicy maths behind it! The intuition will help you get the most from it
You should do bad apple as a separate upload with music, it'll be a steady stream of subscribers and the video will be randomly recommend to people in 5 years.
Definitely do this, I've randomly clicked on a tons of random bad apple videos before. It's a fun song, and nice seeing all the different art styles it's in
I do love a good Bad Apple rabbit hole when it happens
can't wait to watch the Bee Movie on your Etch a Sketch at Open Sauce 2025!
If far from spot, go.
If less far from spot, go less.
Very wisdom.
Don't forget "proportionally" to finish the haiku
this is truly the art of teaching in a fun way, you are amazing and i loved seeing my old "COW PALACE!!"
i can not stress enough the importance of what you are doing in reaching out to other creatives and inspiring to learn, and as a chef i fully support the science in art and the art in science. please keep up the amazing work and if you ever need a professional chefs insight from 15 plus years around the globe. i have many a tale
Michael Reeves' glow up real yo
Wow! Adding the animations was MUAH! Chef's kiss! Well done. 🤘
Thank you!!! I got into blender so I could better communicate for just this reason 🤠🤠
I really appreciate you bringing PrincessEtch in to talk about art vs science and how computers and humans create art differently--and how that can extend to discussions about generative-AI art.
We interviewed her for so long because she was so freaking nice and awesome to talk to
By far my fav thing to come from our TH-cam journey has been meeting people like her :)
So glad to hear you enjoyed my contribution to the overall conversation! It was an honor to be a part of this video.
The cut away before the logo hits the corner is diabolical
This guy created the real Etch a Sketch from Toy Story and made it a reality
There is so much great to say about this but all I can think about is the DVD logo hitting the corner 🤣
I was waiting for Bad Apple, I'm glad you followed the law. Super cool build
We just had to right? Thanks for the support :)
So glad I found this channel. The stuff y’all do is amazing.
Glad to have you with us on the journey 👋🤠
Old geek here, really enjoyed your journey! Gives me hope for our future. Makes me jealous I didn't grow up in this time and culture!
This had a great sponsor segment. GG, beautiful project and a nice video.
One of those awesome videos that combine knowledge and process with good cinematography and a thrilling narrative. Don't take this the wrong way but I was on the verge of skipping ahead for the whole video and just genuinely never actually skipped (it's just what I do, ADHD).
I feel inspired and appreciate so much that you shared everything. Love you guys and will keep watching the channel!
Aw thanks for the compliments:) we poured our hearts into this dang project and video, so happy to see it's helpful -- we want to inspire and teach above all else.
Robotics is for everyone! even if you almost skipped everything 😜 as long as you feel learned and entertained we don't mind
Thanks for watching :)
That is just crazy! thought you had a million and something subs before i checked if I was subscribed! keep up the great work!
One day we'll get there 🤧 thanks for being here on our journey:))
Same! I was like "44.5K whaaaaaa?" and hit that sub button
Reminds me a bit of AlphaPhoenix' recent rocketing to big numbers, mostly because you both love the story in the tech, and you're excited to tell it in your personal way, without getting bogged down earth passing the game! Really enjoyed that video.
Plus, isn't it just so awesome to sleep, take a brief breather, then show the world how cool the project was in your mind? Whenever we have hackathons at work I always want to take another day or two to properly finish it!
Thanks for sharing your journey!
You might not think of what your machine produces as art, and maybe it isn't. But your machine is art. You created it, you poured all of the same time and work any artist would put into any other work into it.
Omg, this is the first PID explanation that makes intuitive sense to me! I have been around them since the early days of the drone scene, but never could quite grasp it intuitively. Thank you!!
I'm so glad you found it helpful! I went back and forth on how complex I wanted to go into it and landed on intuition over code syntax
Thanks for watching, glad to help :)
On the "is this art" question, I think what the robot produces isn't the art but the robot itself. That's what you put work into and what impresses people.
How have I not seen this channel before
Im glad i subbed! The logo bouncing around made me smile irl. Excited to see what u guyz do next!!
Hahaha thanks for the sub! We are probably etched out for a while, but there's plenty of robotics fun times coming up and in progress:)
This made my day… Thank you for sharing that journey. Keep doing what makes you happy. The joy of learning and sharing your knowledge is a wonderful thing to watch.
We love to share and teach! We'll keep em coming hahaha
Thanks for watching and the support:)
27:01 i dont rlly know how etch a sketchs work so maybe this doesnt make sense but wouldn’t it be possible to get rid of those lines that draw from the border to whatever’s being drawn in the middle if you got the “cursor” to wherever it needs to be to begin with, then erasing the drawing and then just starting from the middle? it’d get rid of the border too but then u could just use the actual border itself as the border
the etch a sketch is like a pen you can't lift but can erase, you have to draw lines to make gaps
@ when u erase does it change the location of the cursor/ is it possible to erase without changing the location of the cursor? Bc if u can move the cursor, and then erase without changing where the cursor is then I think there’s a miscommunication?
for a drawing like that box logo thats floating in the middle of the screen, the only gap is the box itself. so if u just start where you wanted the box to begin with you don’t need to cross any gaps. obviously you’d have to scrap the border but the border doesn’t really add anything in a lot of cases.
but ya obviously not possible to avoid if its not possible to reliably erase the screen with the cursor at a specific point. It’d also only be useful in drawings where there’s only one thing floating in the middle, if there were 2 box logos for example then you would definitely need a line to cross the gap
@@noThankyou-g5c you can only erase the whole screen at once. You can’t selectively erase where a line was drawn. From memory it’s a glass screen and aluminium powder on it. The pen scratches powder off, leaving a line where it has been. To erase the whole screen you invert the device and shake, this covers the glass panel with surplus powder from the base of the device and fills in any lines that have been drawn.
Excellent work, everyone! The final product is insanely impressive. Maybe giving it a concept of shading would be a good next step? Allow it to create blocks of black and white as well as just lines. Also, do you have more footage of the interview you did? I’d love to hear more about the more artistic side of etching a sketch without using a robot.
We're releasing the full interview on Patreon soon! Thanks for watching Malao :)
Awesome stuff Alex and team! We're always thrilled to support innovative projects, even if it means squeezing in a "rush order" for some awesome makers. 😉
So good guys! Can’t wait for the feature film.
Just amazing. This is art and science. 😊
That's what we're all about over here ;) thanks for watching
This is absolutely amazing...I must learn your ways!
@@cowabungacreation crazy thing is we have a discord just for that!
@@EveryFlavorRobot you son of a bitch...I'm in!
Sick! Guess I was here from the start, for once.
Great video. Great work. Keep it up!
well done dudes this one is amazing 1st vid iv watched at 1x in a while
That means so much 🙏😭
We poured our hearts into this one. thanks for watching!
Nice video. I made my own etch-a-sketch drawing robot with stepper motors. I used klipper for the operating system with a PI for speed. When trying to speed it up I broke one though. I bought a second one and am a bit reluctant to break it again :). I had the idea to cut out a portion of the etch a sketch and put a mini fan inside of it to reset it so you don't have to flip it over every time. It's a mess though once you open it up. Didn't complete that test yet but maybe something you want to explore as well! good luck!
We were also considering a fan inside! Would love to see it erase automagically
Looks awesome, can’t wait to see what opensauce 2025 brings 👀
It was awesome meeting there last time 🤠 hope to see y'all there in July!
Wow that was awesome. Congrats on the great design work!
Always fun to see creators nerd out about/with other creators
Was awesome to see this in person at OpenSauce, and I'm glad to hear that youre continuing to iterate and improve on the design! Plus, my mom and I even got to make a brief cameo at 0:08!
seriously nice engineering work, and great video presentation.
This is an idea I’ve had since I was a kid. Nothing existed at the time to even come close to getting it done. I mean maybe just simple shapes repeated in different places, like the DVD logo bouncing around but that didn’t even exist back then. I would have probably just gone with a rectangle moving diagonally once, while transforming from mostly wide to mostly tall. LOL
I’m sincerely impressed and the nostalgia is killin me! Great work. Really really cool.
P.S. at the end, the Chicago Bean jumped off the screen at me instantly. As fast as the human brain operates. First frame. So in this case I’m congratulating your fine tuning of the software to pick out relevant boundaries from the mess that is any picture of that area. lol
Awesome project and video. Look forward to seeing more of what you do.
This is so freaking cool! I love that I have discovered your channel!
To me the most interesting part of this video was the talk about lost motion and cursors. I am the software engineer and I've worked on physics simulators, graphicsl algs and other similar systems. What I'm a bit curious about is if the lost motion on the etch-a-sketch changes over time due to wear and tear? I feel like there should be a useful algorithm that you could use to figure out the lost motion without having to do it manually. If you added a camera to the system, you could have it draw a test box without accounting for the slippage and then the algorithm could dynamically insert this value. Obviously this would only be useful if the slippage becomes much more varied overtime.
As an aside, maybe because you're just using one line but all of this kind of reminds me of the logo programming language. It's been years but back when I first got into programming, I used logo to understand vector graphics and various other concepts. Keep up the good work, subscribed.
Do you guys accept PRs and contributions on your code?
Thats so incredible. And a really great video, I genuinely love it
BRO, i just found my PID explanation video for the programming team of my robotics team.
Let's go!! Fun fact - swapnil and I were on the same robotics team in college and that's how we started working together hahaha
Damnnnnnn damn damn damn! The girl video animation in the etch a sketch was soo good
Thanks! We were scared to get copy right struck so we didn't include it, BUT you should search "bad apple" and there's a lot of time lapse and animations similar to it, I bet you'll like
Great project. Gj.
Btw.
Last design I made with pcbway.
From design (here at home) to Delivery. 11 days.
As someone who has coded PID controllers before... that was the best intuitive overview of PIDs ive seen.
It was the haiku that did it for you wasn't it?
Hahaha jokes aside though, thanks a ton for the support and watching :) I've been kind of scared if we hit the right balance of complex vs watchable with the PID explanation, people seem to like it though!
You all should be very proud of yourselves, this was no small accomplishment!
I remember watching the old video, this new version is amazing!
Thanks for keeping up with our journey :)
Would love to see the skyline of Pittsburgh done by your bot! The hard industrial lines and art deco styles combined with the organic shapes of the hills, rivers, and fountain would be quite the challenge for it!
Amazing work!! 🎉
thanks :))
Super cool!
Thanks :)
I think it is art. I don't think what the robot does is art, but the robot itself is art, the process of making an animated etch-a-sketch is art, even if each drawing isn't artistic.
The 20th Century logo kinda makes me want to see some frame by frame recreations. Trying to do a 1/4 speed reproduction of a movie would be a pretty good stress test I guess.
This is kinda earth shattering
Hahaha etch a sketch shattering too
Dude this is the best visualization of backlash I saw so far! I will steal it (and of cause quote you)
The backlash explaininator will remove backlash confusion from the tri state area 😈😈😈😈
This seems like an idea a little kid would come up with and its AMAZING
Hahaha we all are kids in the inside aren't we 🙂↕️
This is a great channel! The algorithm is working.
This is awesome! Did you consider using stepper motors tho? They make great paperweights
Stepper? I hardly even knower
This is incredible
Love it, all of it! I’m enjoying my level 3 Status!
God bless!
Hahaha level 3 is a healthy place to be, any further and it starts getting weird 🤠
an idea to add the "texture" aspect which you said you had no controll over is for every group of color to have an assosiated pattern, and have the computer factor it into the path. kinda like how you drew williams beard, except every color gets a texture. dense grids for darks, light meshes for mid, and empty spaces for brights. just an idea
I think this is an awesome project! I would love to see you guys upload the full version of the bad apple demo :)
If you think about it you could make it draw in grey scale by changing how dense the drawing is effectively giving you black and white images
This is amazing, really good job. See it at Open Sauce 2025?
Thanks!! We would definitely like to be at opensauce!
YO ALE 8!!!!! I see that cutout on the wall! Let's go! I'm from Kentucky. It's my favorite drink by far!
That's so cool! I saw the first video and was impressed but damn!
21:01 - "...an Etch-a-Sketch stylus stand-in?"
_[throws a couple of brown Lego bricks on top]_
*_"PERRY_* THE ETCH-A-SKETCH STYLUS STAND-IN?!"
Holy moly what she can do are truly quite impressive on an etch-a-sketch
Excellent video, guys!
OMG! :) :O A spherical cow!!!! @ 7:30
And I loved the PID explanation.
Please release the full Bad Apple cut 🙏
check the pinned comment
To make it look more hand drawn you could look into line halftone patterns and/or cross stitch conversion. And maybe an adapted 2 bit dithering algorithm.
Bad Apple looks GREAT on this...
This is insane.
hahahaha I'm glad you find it cool! watching it IRL still feels insane tbh. Maybe next time we'll make it run quieter
Princess etch is a proof that Ai will never take over art if true artists are there
Was a lot of fun trying it at Open Sauce 🙂
The animations at the end are super cool!!!
If only we had the drawing upgrades done by then!
this is sick!
I feel like if you manage to add infill (maybe even with dithering), it's 100% complete
Fantastic. Super impressive.
damn beat me to it with the bad apple! this is awesome!
Engineering is fun 😎🤖
This was a GREAT video to watch, but i do have a question, couldnt you guys write a program that makes each part of an image a value? like the lighter parts would be 1, slightly darker 2, and so on, cause if thats possible, youll just be able do make actual high quality photos
That's a great question! Thanks for watching and asking :)
We tried for a bit to handle image segmentation and shading - we agree it should be easy to assign hatching values and stuff to the image sections, but we found it didn't look as good as optimizing for good edge detection.
I really want to revisit this idea in the future! But for now we are kind of etch a sketched out, and especially if this video doesn't do that well then we need to go do stuff to keep the lights on hahaha
So, yeah tldr;
you're spot on!
- Alex
@EveryFlavorRobot I have no doubt this video will do well, but take the well deserved brake y'all need, and keep on going :heart_emoji:
@@EveryFlavorRobot I think some good photo-to-sketch algorithms exist, some of them using AI. Would that be something you could implement? Also, on the subject of whether THIS video will do well: I just got here. The TH-cam algorithm put this video in my recommends. I've never seen or heard of you before. I subbed in the first minute of the video, and I'm probably going to go back and see what I've missed so far, and binge watch everything. You guys are awesome, and if the TH-cam algo keeps doing its thing, you'll probably hit a million subscribers really soon.
I'd say this is art... Just not what it's producing more or less, lol. The piece in and of itself is most DEFINITELY art! Most people can't just "art up" an art machine lmao!
Should make a Rolodex version. When one moves out of the way the next is already done, and swinging around wipes the screen. Then you can have it basically be a flip book
Oh yeah we think this is a great idea
A bit burnt out of etching and sketching for a bit but when we revisit, I think this is the route forward
Oh wow. Never realized yinz were local. Hello neighbor!
Big fan of the burgh
suggestion to make the text better: OCR, erase the bounding box of each character and fill in with pre-made text assets. also another thing you could do for videos is saving where travel lines are and travel along lines to the closest one so it doesn't flicker as much.
you could also add different infill patterns to add shading. for example you can draw loops with the distance between loops being the darkness of the picture. there's also variable density space filling curves but I can't seem to find a great one, probably the easiest is "Hilbert's Space-filling Curve for Regions with Holes" with the order depending on the darkness, but it only has a few levels .
Well worth the wait!
I just thought of this, if you use this machine with some algorithm help for a bit more texture from a full picture u could quite quick replicate a movie directly into a draw style, color it in in post edits and that shit would go fire
Those are some great updates - animation is really cool! Can't wait to see what you come up with next! Maybe you need to program an icon viewer? Or just name your files better?
This seems to be a very cool project!
Very cool little machine!