Devlog 2 - X axis done.

Taking lessons from the last devlog, I completely reworked the pulley system at the end. I also fixed the print settings for the spools, but had other issues.

But in the end I managed to achieve an amazing result, which draws dashed lines. It uses a servo motor to move the pen up and down and a stepper using what is sort of a capstan drive, however heavily modified.

For some reason I decided after this to completely redesign the whole thing into a corexy plotter instead, I think it was a terrible decision but let’s see how we do in 10 hours…

One problem I had is that the pen holder is very very wobbly, either I’ll just tighten the tolerances or maybe change it so that the servo is attached directly. Another is the servo mount - as you can see I had to break some of it off to mount the servo as I didn’t account for the wires.