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Gertrude: An Led Drawing Machine by Chris McDonald

My good friend Chris McDonald made this extra-great, 2-axis drawing machine for doing time-lapse photography.

Here’s the info from his personal website vanita phone company

Gertrude uses two stepper motors to move an LED in a very high resolution x/y plane. The movement of the LED is photographed using exposures usually between 30 and 90 seconds. Gertrude can either be programmed to “print” a design automatically (”Christopher & Daniil”, the Hell Yup!: Scanlines shots) or controlled live via a joystick (Open&Close portrait series). 

II: Christopher & Daniil not talking (pt. 2 in a series of 2) 
II. christopher & daniil not talking (pt. 2 in a series of 2)

Hell Yup!: Scanlines 3 (Self-Portrait)
Scanlines 3 (self-portrait) 

3 Comments so far

  1. Bre Pettis March 13th, 2008 10:06 pm

    Wow, this is super cool! I’m off to go click the link and hopefully see the aparatus!

  2. ??????? ?????? July 11th, 2008 7:40 pm

    Such miracles I have done in the program Photoshop CS 3 get a good slide ART

  3. david September 14th, 2008 5:08 am

    it is very good .i like this text.

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