A new Kickstarter Project has been garnering attention. While it’s not super useful or groundbreaking, it’s undeniably cool. It’s called Line-us, and the project has already reached £71,185 of its £39,000 goal.
Line-us is a small internet connected robot drawing arm – it mimics your motion with a pen and recreates whatever you draw on screen. Draw with your finger, mouse, stylus or Apple Pencil and follow it in real time as it copies your movements. Save and share your drawing to start communicating with other Line-us machines!
Line-us: The little robot arm
It’s not a plotter nor a printer, it’s a draw-er, which gives Line-us its own style and unique character. The magic bit is that Line-us draws in exactly the same order you did.
Just connect it to a USB battery or power supply and you are ready to go. Line-us comes with a small metal plate to hold it in place. You can use it on any writable surface: in your sketchbook, diary, notebook or just a piece of paper. You can also hang it to the wall or mount it on a fridge
A community of users
What can I do with Line-us? We can only guess – it’s up to you! We believe Line-us becomes magical when it connects to the internet and talks to the community of other machines. We want to find out what you will do with it:
Enjoy collecting other people’s drawings.
Use it to send messages…
and receive them.
Play games with friends
Be inventive and experiment!
If you’re in to coding, Line-us has an easy interface to talk to Scratch, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Python and Processing. It can talk to another language too.
While it’s too late to get a machine with a pledge, you can still donate towards to cause for the minor rewards.
