It's nice someone actually build this thing and got it to work. : P But it seems to make some unpleasant noises when it raises and lowers the pen... Either the design isn't strong enough to hold the gears together (shame on me) or you forgot to use the white 24 tooth gear.
Anyway, I would love to hear some feedback. Were there any troubles with following the building instructions or did the sample program even work?
Just if you noticed anything, I would be glad to hear from you.
Sorry for the delay, but I just noticed your comment. We really enjoyed building your plotter. I don't remember whether we used the white 24 tooth gear. It wasn't too difficult to build. We were missing one of the four racks that mesh with the gears so we couldn't use your program, which required the full range of motion of the pen. I made a very simple program which lifted and raised the pen and moved the paper. It took a lot of trial and error to get it to spell "Daniel".
WOW WOW WOW WOW.
TheDanBrennan 2 months ago
"writing daniels name" r u kidding me?
PianoElements 9 months ago
@PianoElements What do you mean? It wrote "Daniel".
andygatt 9 months ago
@andygatt no i mean "writing daniels name" it sounds strange it will be able
that i make an mistake im from german :D
PianoElements 9 months ago
@andygatt no i mean "writing daniels name" it sounds strange it will be able
that i make an mistake im from german :D but good work ;D
PianoElements 9 months ago
@PianoElements I understand now. Thanks.
andygatt 9 months ago
Were did you find the instrocions
TheSirgalahad 1 year ago
@TheSirgalahad
Search for mindstorms plotter spiller on Google and you should find it. I would post the URL but YouTube won't let me.
Keep in mind that you need an extra motor to build the printer. We bought an extra motor on EBay specifically so we could build this model!
andygatt 1 year ago
It's nice someone actually build this thing and got it to work. : P But it seems to make some unpleasant noises when it raises and lowers the pen... Either the design isn't strong enough to hold the gears together (shame on me) or you forgot to use the white 24 tooth gear.
Anyway, I would love to hear some feedback. Were there any troubles with following the building instructions or did the sample program even work?
Just if you noticed anything, I would be glad to hear from you.
Spillerrec 2 years ago
@Spillerrec
Sorry for the delay, but I just noticed your comment. We really enjoyed building your plotter. I don't remember whether we used the white 24 tooth gear. It wasn't too difficult to build. We were missing one of the four racks that mesh with the gears so we couldn't use your program, which required the full range of motion of the pen. I made a very simple program which lifted and raised the pen and moved the paper. It took a lot of trial and error to get it to spell "Daniel".
andygatt 1 year ago
@Spillerrec
We're always looking for good projects to build with our old Mindstorms set. Do you have any favorites with step-by-step instructions?
andygatt 1 year ago