WaterColorBot Software

WaterColorBot Software

There are three main software interfaces for driving the WaterColorBot: RoboPaint, RoboPaint RT, and the Inkscape extensions for WaterColorBot.

Briefly, to describe the three interfaces:

• RoboPaint is automatic painting software, which is usually your best choice when starting from an existing drawing in SVG format.
• RoboPaint RT is an independent real-time painting application, in which you paint on your computer, and the robot follows along in real time.
• The Inkscape extensions for WaterColorBot allow you to create and paint artwork with a very fine level of control, either within Inkscape, or by exporting SVG graphics to RoboPaint.

Much more information about these programs are on their respective pages, linked above.

For Young Programmers

• You can program the WaterColorBot in both Scratch and Snap! Our example code for these projects, "WaterColorBlocks" is available here. You will also need to run RoboPaint (0.9.0 or newer) in the background, as an interface to the WaterColorBot.

For Developers

A brief overview of where to get started:

• RoboPaint is written in Javascript. Its github repository is here.
• RoboPaint RT is written in Processing/Java Its github repository is here
• The Inkscape extensions are written in Python. Their github repository is here
• The RESTful WaterColorBot API is built into RoboPaint.
• You can also send low-level commands directly to the EBB over USB, from any program that can write to a serial port. Command documentation for the EBB can be found here