The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials -- artificially engineered composite materials that derive their properties from patterned ...

Stepper motors are great for projects that require accurate control of motion. 3D printers, CNC machines and plotters are often built using these useful devices. [InventorArtist] built a stepper-based ...

Makers Justin and his friend Brett have created a fantastic DIY joystick-controlled laser drawing machine powered by an Arduino development board. The framework has been constructed from laser-cut ...

Pop-up book maker and paper engineer Robert Sabuda has teamed up with the Leonardo da Vinci Robot Society to create a build-it-yourself drawing machine that's based on a rumor, that da Vinci's ...

What can A.I. teach us about Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci? A lot, as we discovered from a new online retrospective from Google Arts and Culture that’s powered by machine learning.