Drawing Machines

3D Printing Projects, Arduino Projects, Drawing Machines, Woodworking Projects

In addition to our Reaction Game, vi also had a drawing machine on display at this year’s Trondheim Maker Faire. The machine exhibited in our tent at Trondheim Maker Faire 2015 This drawing machine is designed to draw on paper…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 5: Finale

November 26, 2014

Making this machine was really fun and rewarding. We learned a lot on the way and we also got great feedback from the users at Trondheim Maker Faire and several other places we’ve exhibited the plotter. There’s still much to…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 4: Software and firmware

November 7, 2014

Getting an image to the machine from somewhere else might at first seem like the most challenging aspect of a drawing machine like this. However, as soon as you get a grasp of some basic fundamentals, the road from some…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 3: Electronics

October 29, 2014

This post will explain the electronics taking part of the big Plotter. First we will explain the whole system: what it consists of and how it’s all connected together, before we go more in depth on some of the components.…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 2: Structural & Mechanical

October 23, 2014

As stated in the Overview post, we wanted to base our core design on the previously built Laser Engraver. That implies using the same basic frame principle as well as stepper motors for actuating the machine in the XY plane…

Making a Plotter for Trondheim Maker Faire – Part 1: An Overview

October 2, 2014

We thought it would be fun to build an old fashioned plotter which could be both interactive by duplicating what is drawn on a computer, as well as being able to draw vector graphics. All the actual drawing would be…

Preparing the Drawing Machine to Technoport Access Water

September 25, 2012

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

We are now preparing to have our Drawing Machine exhibited on Technoport Talks: Access Water conference that will find place in NTNU Realfagsbygget tomorrow (26.sept 2012). The Drawing Machine will stand outside of R8 from 08:30 to approx 13.00. If you are nearby you could catch…

Drawing Machine – part 2

April 14, 2012

Skift Design is making an installation for the Technoport conference in Trondheim, and as a part of that they wanted a drawbot. They contacted Omega Workshop at NTNU, and got in contact with me and Gunnar who was actually making one already! What needs to…

Drawing Machine Timelapse

April 14, 2012

Enjoy =) USB power supply to the GoPro Finished drawing

Drawing Machine – part 1

April 11, 2012