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Life & fun · September 19, 2021

I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots

It's Friday, so I want to share one of the most fun projects I've ever worked on. A few years ago, I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots. We wrote many thousands and thousands of addresses on our direct mail, and wrote personal messages for high value prospects.

I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots launched on September 19, 2021 with 408 votes, #31 of 2,941 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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This project showcases four eight-foot-long robots designed to produce handwriting. Built as a creative engineering feat, the robots translate digital input into physical handwritten output at a large scale. The work appeals to those interested in robotics, generative art, and mechanical engineering. The project demonstrates how automation can replicate human writing gestures in an unconventional format.

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