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Makelangelo Tutorials

How to Set Up a Makelangelo 3.2 Robot

2016-09-08 Dan

This tutorial video shows you how to set up everything you need to run your Makelangelo 3.2 robot. Watch for guidance from receiving your robot to fully installed and ready to draw.

Install It Anywhere

The Makelangelo 3.2 can be setup on any other vertical surface. Any wall, easel, or window in your classroom, home, or business can host this drawing robot. For installation on glass or windows, suction cup mount option is now available at checkout.

Keep Updated

Just like your phone app updates, we work out bugs and continue to refine our software for all Makelangelos. Visit our Downloads page to ensure you have the latest versions to keep your drawing robot working smoothly.

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How to draw Open Street Maps with a Makelangelo

2016-06-28 Dan

Drawing open street maps on the Makelangelo looks fantastic and is painless once you have the Open Street Map OSM file into DXF format. Here are the steps I use to download Open Street Map data as a DXF.

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Introduction to LCDs

2016-04-15 Dan

An LCD is a great way to communicate a lot of information fast from an Arduino. Combine it with a few buttons, and it suddenly becomes a great control interface for your new machine, whatever it may be. However, LCDs only use 16 pins to communicate with other circuit boards, but the Arduino UNO only has 13 pins. We’re going to need to use something in between to let us do more with less. This is where an I2C backpack comes to the rescue. The only tricky part is that each I2C backpack and LCD are slightly different and require some small tweaks. Today, let’s go through it and show you how the LCD/I2C combo works out.

Check out our final product:

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