This impressive 24-inch drawing display dominated my desktop, but for this price, I’d get used to working on the floor.

It’s a simple robot that drags a pen around to draw on paper ... The robot does a good job of plotting out a drawing on a small scale, with [Tim] using it to outline his name on paper.

They were inspired by classic picture-drawing automatons, and made a 21st-century version to be used in museums or at events like trade shows. The operation of the Piktograph is very simple ...