It’s not a day as well late to switch your occupation from engineering to art or vice-versa! While a few of us tend far towards one end or the other, some like [Chris] show us just exactly how awesome it is to walk the line… er, ceiling in this case. [Chris] took a cue from his fiancée’s most current mural job to produce an automated painting jig he calls ARTbOT.

Spraying the ceiling with ARTbOT seems like fun, however it’s a dream [Chris] needed to recognize with only his spare time as well as little budget. restrictions aside, he’s pulled it off elegantly with a cluster of extruded aluminum tubing, a few paint sprayers, as well as a LabView-driven Fet triggered by encoder ticks on the decrease wheel. To pain the image, it’s first binarized as well as scaled to fit ARTbOT’s 8-inch pixel size. ARTbOT then gets a improve from a scissor-lift where it can then track it’s linear setting with the decrease wheel to spray the pixel-pattern correctly.

[Chris] pulled this rig together to assist his fiancée as well as her art business deal with big canvases, in this case, big freeway underpasses. With preliminary studio tests running smoothly with ARTbOT proudly printing its name, we can’t wait to see the final piece. In the meantime, have a look at this edgy handheld alternative. enjoy out mural artists! There’s an 8-bit competitor in the sound these days.