{"id":299251,"date":"2024-05-26T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T12:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/?p=299251"},"modified":"2024-05-24T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:51:03","slug":"what-happens-when-you-connect-ai-and-cameras-to-an-etch-a-sketch-these-robot-builders-found-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/what-happens-when-you-connect-ai-and-cameras-to-an-etch-a-sketch-these-robot-builders-found-out\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when you connect AI and cameras to an Etch-a-Sketch? These robot-builders found out"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you come across one of those internet moments that makes you smile it is a magical feeling and that\u2019s what happened when we discovered this amazing project on the Every Flavor of Robot YouTube channel<\/a> – a channel that has been around for less than a year.<\/p>\n

These self-confessed nerds decided they wanted to exhibit something at this year\u2019s Open Sauce conference<\/a> to be held in San Francisco in the middle of June, but at the time they realized they only had two weeks to come up with an idea to be accepted.<\/p>\n

They had been messing around with an old Etch-a-Sketch, trying to draw a perfect circle by hand when the idea game to them to build a robot to control the retro toy and, using motors, get it to draw cool-looking pictures.<\/p>\n

The idea then advanced to adding a camera that would take a picture, use AI<\/a> to convert the picture to G-Code (the same sort of code as a 3D printer uses), and then send the code to the motors which would then turn the wheels of the Etch-a-Sketch and recreate the picture life in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n