ArtBotics is a fun way for students to mix art with robotics. You can use Arduino, NXTs, EV3s, and more.
UMass at Lowell has several YouTube videos like this compilation and also this ready-to-use project guide .pdf
Artbotics: Building an Interactive Kinetic Sculpture
Here are a few other links that have inspired our teams to create artbotics projects like the one in the video above. Once you go to one of these, you'll find many more videos on the subject.
From a teacher workshop at Georgia Tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga4YPM_hFok
ArtBotics with Arduino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRqMfCf3NF4
Some very cute projects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO11gLgJ7x4&t=3s
Using NXTs or you could easily substitute EV3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRqMfCf3NF4
http://artbotics.cs.uml.edu/wordpress/?p=2960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nPu7Apcjx4
ARTBOtics For STEAMgraph here.
FTC 7673 Team Info &
Our Robotics and Scratch Camp Info