>Draw me : V-Plotter robot for line drawing
- Date:2018
- Category:Robot Design, Creative Coding
- Tags:Creative Projects, V-Plotter
This project is made quickly to understand the micro stepping control and mathematical / mechanical architecture of the V-Plotter. Most of the project / architecture is mostly influnced by Der Kritzler Project
Development - Machine Firmware
The drawing bot is controlled by two NEMA 17 stepper motor attached to each corner of the wall canvas. I used the electric brain shield v3.1 by JJrobotics.
Board firmware (Arduino) Github : https://github.com/jjrobots/
A pen is hang with 6m toothed pulley belt, and the pulley provides the closed loop feedback to the machine.
Development - GUI
The picture to draw is uploaded as jpg file, and the GUI written in Processing code interpretes the sketches into svg code. Then the saved svg file is sent to the arduino machine with USB serial port.