Homemade 6'x6' Arduino Pen Plotter
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- čas přidán 8. 01. 2018
- I was an undergraduate research assistant during the Fall 2017 semester at Indiana University Kokomo. We made an Arduino controlled CNC router from scratch with the intent of using it for large-scale drawings. This video is a general overview of the entire project, if you would like any technical details feel free to send me a message!
Professor: Wayne Madsen
Assistant: (Me) Caleb Rowe
Songs Used:
Taylor King - alone
Taylor King - amigos
AIRAVATA - Self Made
BeatJoven - Rain
I love that feeling you guys had at 2:20 or so! This is super cool.
The best and honest built video.
Iterations, testing, twiking, squaring frame and lots of hair pulling.
This is awesome. Thank you for sharing. I have a 3D printer and a commercial vinyl plotter which are awesome but store bought. One day I'd like to build a similar pen plotter (maybe a little smaller) so I could learn more about controlling stepper motors using g-code. This is very inspirational to see it come together.
Bravo Awesome Project !!
thank you!
Good job... congratulations
Can send technical details pleases
Hello friends. I try to make like this 3d pen plotter but i have a problem. The Problem, i cant control the z axis with cnc shield and uno. I can controll just uno. It runs correctly. How can i solve this problem? Do you have any idea?
Hey y'all beautiful work! I am looking to purchase one of these for a live gallery charity event. Would this be something you offer?
Blessings,
Michael
Cheers. Nice project. Because the plotter is so big, it is terribly slow. You need to put another program in there to make it draw faster. Or you need to set the drawing speed.
En lugar de las canciones usadas, sería bueno que indicaran que software usaron...
Hey! Love the project (& that you use Processing!) I'm wanting to build a massive plotter like this for my senior project & wondered if you have any resources or links to tackling something like this?
Lovely project, I am in the process of designing my own large volume pen plotter after building 2 3D-printers, 1 Laser cutter and a recycled DVD-stepper motor pen plotter. I see some nice design ideas in this build and definitely some I would want to improve on myself. And one thing, please don't ever wear gloves when using a drill press!! (a 6:48). I've seen some gruesome accidents with people doing that.
Marinus Awesome, glad we could give you some good ideas! And yeah, we won't be using gloves anymore, we got lucky at one point where the drill caught the glove and ripped it off his hand! Luckily no one was hurt!
Oh good to hear nothing went wrong when the machine grabbed the glove! My plan is to use aluminium extrusions for the frame to ensure both rigidity and squareness. And besides that, the aluminium extrusions (the V-slot type) are also perfect linear guides that do not deflect much at lengths over 1 meter. So they can be frame and linear rods at the same time and save space and weight. The plotter size I'm going for is A0 paper size. Hardware will probably be an Arduino Mega with Ramps 1.4 and Marlin firmware. The only thing I'm still doubting about is what software to use. bCNC does an okay job at sending the gcode but the Unicorn plugin for Inkscape that I'm using only produces low-resolution lines and curves are chopped up to straight lines. I haven't had that experience when working with other gcode generators so I might have to find a solution for that. I'll ask around in the RepRap forums, maybe someone over there will know some way to get a better gcode generated from my illustrations.
@@MarinusMakesStuff Your comment makes me wonder if anyone's built a plotter based on polar, rather than rectangular, coordinates. That would be amazing to watch and I imagine it would draw beautiful curves.
@@hairymcnipples Hairy! I did make a polar plotter ;) But I was disappointed in the speed and precision of it. However, after that I set out to build an A0 sized plotter, you can see the results in my channel. Also, I have a supercool A3+ size DIY plotter running that absolutely rocks. Thanks for your reply, it reminded me of where I started a long time ago :)
Great video. I love the art, and I am interested in making art to be printed to a large scale pen plotter (I currently just use traditional paints and canvas, etc.). What software did you use to create the art? Did you "print" the SVG file, or did you have to convert the SVG file to gcode?
This is very inspiring!
Thanks for the comment! Most of our prints come from algorithmic pieces we made in Processing or HTML5 canvas. We take still images from those animations and convert them to .svg format, and from there we throw the svg into a gcode converter. The Arduino we are using has a GRBL library loaded onto it, which basically allows it to read gcode. Using UniversalGcodeSender you can send the Arduino the gcode and away it goes!
Can you send the parts
Hi, I am mfa student and I wanna make one of these ..Do you have PDF of your process ?
Hi, sorry no we did not do a write up of the process. We picked from various instructables projects to get ideas. I would check there
Well done !!! How did this project unfold ??
hey can u plz send me a software used and wiring procedure.
Check description of this video: czcams.com/video/tSMQgoMC3hY/video.html
Did you run into any trouble maxing out # of vectors?
Yeah, for the really big drawings we had trouble finding a suitable program that could render our svgs and export the gcode. We used Makercam but that crashed a lot under our large drawings