Pen Plotter - Devlog 6.

I’ve been working more on the gantry system, and I got my first prototype up and running.

I used steel rods, NEMA 17 stepper motors, and timing belts for this. Other than that it’s almost all 3d printed. I designed a couple of parts badly, mainly forgetting to put a hole into one of the motor parts, so that the shaft wouldn’t fit. Other than that, it worked surprisingly well.

The first few images I drew were of my cat, Onyx, and I used the system I described in a previous devlog where it converts the image into lines. I’ll also need to try canny edge detection, as that would probably work quite well, but I’ll need to work more on the plotter’s software because it can only draw horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines at the moment. I’ll also work on converting svgs, and also text possibly