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A project log for Tortuga - A sand drawing robot

Inspired by the likes of Disney Research and Ivan Miranda, I have decided to make a small scale sand drawing robot.

r-langR Lang 09/29/2025 at 08:540 Comments

I wanted to share this little snapshot represents my initial ideas on where I wanted to take the project, design wise. For now, I have abandoned this design and will use it when I scale up the robot - for now it's an unwarranted level of complexity for what is ultimately a small robot. In future? Who knows!

In a future update I will share the final design along with the STLs and code examples, currently I am debating a polar vs cartesian co-ordinates system, polar would mean starting it from a nominal, known point - really not that hard to design, cartesian, being 3d would need an IMU to measure its position - again, not really that big of an integration issue, but a layer of unwarranted complexity, affecting the overall size and shape of Tortuga 1.0.

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