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Create paintings to decorate your home and explore your creativity with the Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™.
The Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™, designed for artists of all ages, brings together real watercolors, precision motion, and the joy of painting to expand what’s possible in the world of Machine Arts. The Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ turns digital artwork into expressive watercolor paintings made with a real brush.
With the Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™, anyone can fill their home with original artwork that’s both personal and expressive. Choose a favorite photo, a seasonal design, or a simple pattern, and watch as the Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ paints it beautifully in real watercolor. Each piece feels handmade, because it is painted with a real brush with every color and stroke chosen by you. From bold statement pieces to calming watercolor landscapes, it’s a beautiful way to bring creativity and inspiration into your home.
The Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ empowers educators to teach across disciplines, art, design, and engineering, and invites families to experience the wonder of Machine Arts together. Whether it’s a weekend project or a classroom exploration, the Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ makes painting with a machine inspiring, approachable, and endlessly creative.
For artists and makers looking to bring painting into their Machine Arts practice, the Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ delivers professional results with the same workflow found across the Bantam Tools Art Machine Ecosystem.
“Our mission is to unlock creative power through exploration, the WaterColorBot is a perfect example of that spirit, bringing art, technology, and imagination together in a way that inspires discovery.”
said Bre Pettis, CEO of Bantam Tools.
Features & Workflow
The Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ introduces Bantam Tools’ painting workflow at a 9 x 12” scale, ideal for home studios, classrooms, and creative makerspaces. It features a standalone design with an integrated OLED display and microSD card support, allowing artists to paint directly from stored files without needing a connected computer.
Powered by Bantam Tools Studio™, the same professional-grade software used across Bantam Tools’ large-format ArtFrame™ series, the Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ makes it easy to design, paint, and experiment. It’s classroom-ready, studio-capable, and built to grow with your creativity.
The new Bantam Tools Image Processor™, built right into Bantam Tools Studio™, converts your images into paint-ready vector files. With just a few clicks anyone can transform a favorite image into a watercolor painting.
For those new to the world of Machine Arts, the Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ makes getting started simple and rewarding. No design or coding experience is required to begin painting with real materials. It’s an approachable way to explore painting with machines and a natural entry point into the larger Bantam Tools ecosystem of creative tools. Everything you need to start painting comes right in the box. From the magnetic easel and paint palette to the included Crayola® watercolor set, brush, a high quality watercolor paper your Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ is ready to create the moment you unbox it, just add water!
History of the WaterColorBot
The first WaterColorBot was created as Super Awesome Sylvia's WaterColorBot by Evil Mad Scientist in collaboration with James and Zeph Todd. Zeph was interested in entering a painting machine into the RoboGames competition, and together they contributed to both the concept and software development of that machine based loosely on the configuration of an Etch A Sketch. Initially launched in 2013 on Kickstarter, the WaterColorBot was demoed at the White House at a science event.
The new Bantam Tools edition honors that spirit of creative engineering, preserving the charm and accessibility of the original design while upgrading every component to modern, professional standards. Developed under the guidance of Windell Oskay, now CTO of Bantam Tools, it continues the legacy of innovation that made the first WaterColorBot a beloved tool for artists, educators, and makers worldwide.
"We’ve reimagined the WaterColorBot from the ground up for a new generation of artists, educators, and makers. It’s the newest member of our family of precision creative machines, with entirely new hardware and software."
said Windell Oskay, CTO of Bantam Tools.
Visit the Bantam Tools Machine Arts Gallery showroom at 107 S. Division Street, Peekskill, NY, to see it in action,
or contact hello@bantamtools.com for more information.
About Bantam Tools
Bantam Tools is dedicated to producing exceptional computer-controlled machines that empower artists, educators, engineers, innovators, and personalization pros. With a focus on reliability, precision, and ease of use, our tools help turn digital ideas into physical creations, whether drawing, painting, writing, or crafting.