{"id":1358,"date":"2012-05-08T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/1358-shapeways-helping-robots-do-graffiti-since-2011.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:18:06","slug":"shapeways-helping-robots-do-graffiti-since-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/shapeways-helping-robots-do-graffiti-since-2011","title":{"rendered":"Shapeways: Helping Robots Do Graffiti since 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

The international Association for Robots in Architecture<\/a> got their hands on a KUKA KR16-2 robot which of course means they had to program the robot to start spraying walls with the sort of style that would make the Graffiti Research Lab<\/a> proud… But how do you get a robot to hold the spray gun? Enter Shapeways 3D printing. <\/p>\n

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The gripper was printed as a single piece with movable parts, using selective laser sintering – so to get a working gripper, they only had to add two servo motors, connected to an Arduino<\/a> board. The main challenge was then to find a way to let the industrial robot communicate with the Arduino board, to close and open the gripper at the appropriate time. A similar Arduino-based strategy was used to operate a spraygun, the mounting piece was also 3D printed by Shapeways!<\/p>\n

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Check out the video of the robot in action….<\/p>\n

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