A mural drawing robot and a gentle introduction to 3D printing

Makelangelo is a polargraph mural drawing robot. It is intended to teach students about programming, physics, trigonometry, and electronics in a fun, goal-oriented way. Makelangelo is scalable: our test models have ranged from 30cm^2 to 300cm^2.

Please visit the Makelangelo homepage for the accompanying hardware kit.

Please visit The wiki for all the instructions

Please visit the forums

Makelangelo is derived from the work of Paul Fisher. It is largely inspired by Hektor by Jürg Lehni and Uli Franke.

The contents of ./last_official_release are also available on the official purchase page http://makelangelo.com website.

• Choose File > Import > General > Existing Projects into Workspace and select “Next”.
• Choose “Browse” next to “Select root directory” and select the root folder of your download/clone from github.
• eclipse will scan the folder and find the project. Choose “Finish”

This project has been developed with the 1.7 JDK. You can find out more about it here:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6267392/how-do-i-use-jdk-7-on-mac-osx
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

More details are available in the forums.

• The Makelangelo homepage
• The wiki
• The forums