Max Chandler  Robot Art

I draw almost daily. The most frequent sketches I make are imaginary images. That is there is no physical model and the drawings are not from observation.

Traditional Chinese artists called this a sketchbook of the mind. There is substantial literature in Chinese about how to enrich your mental sketchbook. For me this requires a blend of observational drawings with substantial efforts to correct anomalies combined with copying drawings and studying drawings by the masters.

Here is a mini website about my drawings

I program my robots with the Java Language and Behavior Based Design whenever possible.

By moving the individual characteristics between robots into drivers and performance tables, I can reuse most of the software from one robot to the next. This greatly reduces my exposure to software errors. It is harder and slower to keep the software generalized to fit all of the robots, but pays off big with I work on the same image with more than one robot.

Here is a diagram of my software architecture.