An analog plotbot with an e-paper display

[WeAreUnitedInAFK]

those magnetic kids drawing things used to amaze me

[narval314]

Hey I have a printer too!

[ElectronicsIsFun]

I love it. It has been years since I have seen an X-Y plotter in operation.

GuruSantiago

ElectronicsIsFun

[xXFullmedal57Xx]

dead end tech....... fun to play with but it gets boring quick.

[WalterSolano]

Shit?

I meant the printers are already invented...

[MrKarlalfred88]

nice vid... make an automatic eraser underneath the paper? :P e-ink is our future. hopefully magazines will have it when it gets cheap. :) then we can se animated pictures just like in the magazines of the Harry Potter world. :)

[Sphinxfalcon]

So its essentially a MagnaDoodle with CNC programming. You have WAaaaaayy too much time on your hands. xDD

[HaydenPK]

THE MACHINES ARE TAKING OVER

[awesomelegoguns]

lol good comment:D

[IamCorgidan]

your amazing!

[Gigagoogle]

that scars me^^

[bobiej123]

Kipkay wannabe!

[ThePearI]

Kipkay fanboy!

[Blayzeing]

You should adapt it to include an eraser and get it to act like a PC screen!

[paul204533]

thats awesome im gonna buy one

[Ronnie51026]

so its basicly a flexible whiteboard

[homicidalvegetable]

its flexible... wooo! XD

[imafish2009]

sweet the future of homework writing assignments!

[coolmagicdude]

u should be a youtube partner

[drakukha]

how to make this machine?

[masiewpao]

haha pretty cool

[SoggyFm]

Stick a laser in it and you have a laser cutter?

[technokart]

what's the difference between paper and this? the magnetic thing can't do anything the paper can't?

[rautinger]

you can erase without scalpel or rubber :-)

[HobbyistX]

TK, the magnetic paper can be erased and used over and over without wearing out.

[cksugdad]

it can erase completely, and it's reusable. Felt tip pen on paper can't do that

[spymasterwade]

ya but u can use regular paper for asinments and stuff like that

[mikitymike]

try to get it to draw something extremely detailed

[lyndsey919]

that be hilarious to watch

[hellsmaw84]

w00t Atmel ATMEGA8

[JarJarStudios]

That's awesome.

[woarboar]

Pretty cool but not very usefull. Most people use a regular printer these days :p the only usefull feature is the fact that it can be erased and reused so it saves some paper

[maticoff]

AMAZING!!!

[bboystealth88]

"It's flexible UUUUUU !! I bet you say that to all the girls you go out with :) "

you wont be sayin this shiz when hes rich and gettin all the girls cuz he created something like this and it sells millions..

[Boeserwolf93]

well i'd recommend to get some of these "paper" things with a pixel pitch less than 2mm ...

[klauzes]

It's flexible UUUUUU !! I bet you say that to all the girls you go out with :)

[lolerdelol]

laaaaaameeeeee

[jakedork]

does this have spell check?

[luccaskunk]

Pretty neat, but I am seriously wanting to contend that this is not e-paper... It may hae similar properties, but epaper is a display. not a novelty white board.

[simeonhaha]

I had that

[ELijahKan10]

I WANT ONE

[FIGHTEM1]

i like turtles

[ELijahKan10]

lol zombie kid

[Tarkz9k]

well surely you cant make paper planes out of that

[redheadfisher17]

its an expensiv ech a scetch

[HauntKettle]

Oh thats amazin, I actually had an urge to clap whilst watching it write the text - Awesome!

[afroschlan]

You are MAD!!! But a genius apparently.

[DStd]

I had a toy that like Doodle when I'm kid!

[DarthBowser430]

But probably not one like THAT!

[viktorXX]

you are jenious !

[Jarok3]

nice... gotta be hard to program it to write that text... they are like mordern einsteis

[meatflavour3]

wow. i didnt expect it to be that fast. cool

[BovrilKetchup]

e-paper haha

[Llennoccm8]

can you make it draw the mona lisa?

[RsNUBIE]

I did a project like this at school for science fiar i got 1 place guess what i did...i took pen ink about a pint of it put metal shaving it it with a magnet wait edt about 2 or 3 hours until themetal is s magnetised and they are like microscopic shavings and i put a magnet on my finger and i spelt some workds and it was inky paper :D

[LilDudeVideos]

that is old tech?? wow i would like 1 of them for xmas!

[Cheesetubes]

I understand.

[nelyat13]

my brain hurts...

[grassrot]

Wow, that's pretty cool :D

[fahnetiks]

really cool - it even changed text size when it went to scientist in evil mad scientist

[Cogwerks]

Great, yet another bit of old technology that I want now. :(

Very cool use for it.

[FlameReaper]

Thats awsome. I guess it wouldnt be hard too hard to mount a bar magnet that runs across the paper underneath it with a swtich on the side so you can drag it across to erase the image.

Awsome mod.

[BYMYSYD]

alot like cad drafting

[brielleasaurusLOL]

dude, he just made an automatic magna-doodle.

whoop.

[spentfromnz]

:( I was expecting OLED. Thats not so much e-paper as m-paper.

[Weltar]

what about putting in normal paper and use the pen. does it draw?

[mssssee]

I think it's magnetic or something so no...

[kroq21]

that cool I wish I had on

[kmyerslp]

Mommy look what I drew on my E-paper. :)

[tmontana213]

You know what would be cool? If that thing could draw round boobs on a Etch A Sketch, now thats hard!

[mrprofile101]

lol i dont know y but i find that comment so hilarious lol

[dominikb5]

haha vielen dank für die 5sekunden äusserst naiven spass als du das teil einfach nicht aus deiner maschine bringst...

[zombiekid16]

Nice

[berserktroll1]

dude he sounds like a mega nerd haha

[dasper12562]

how do u make it ti wirt

[daleech]

Could you make this thing do realy complicated works (asuming you have the time)?

[undeadl112]

i dont understand wtf is he saying

[gary333snow]

No wonder we are having to import engineers and scientists.

[FLCProductions]

i wonder if it can draw a picture

[RazorDevil1337]

does any1 understand a thing of what hes saying???!!!!

[starbucks898]

He's a dude from England that plays soccer in LA.

[aleks681]

you said easy to find, what exactly do you meen?

[Halo3dude0]

lol sweet

[luig4444]

great now that will do my 1000 word homework

[ThunderingBiscuit]

you sound like a genius. Cool vid.

[Palnikman]

dude lemme buy that off of u.. haha its soo cool!

[Entaary]

Cool but no actual use of it

[willw1995]

that was a bit boring but also very cool may i say though you have a very nerdy voice are you a nerd.

[ttowntom]

Are you nine years old, or do you just type like one?

[snicker5555]

are you?

[snicker5555]

are you?

[boinkboat]

tats amazing WOW!

[twoofficial]

GOOD SH@T!!

[angryrazzer]

standard for 1970?!?!?that thing...machine is a genuis!

[KIDwild123]

what a nerdy voice

NERD!!!!

[xharriii]

its erasable! woooooooh.

fun:D

[lkydangerckwa]

i wanna plot bot. i'd have it do my homework for me.

[Elekks]

Be faster to just do it rather then resetting values about 3000 times

[delijn57th]

Only 1 word for it: Respect!

[daniel13789]

for old tech. it looks kind of cool :P

[Vanillasmiler]

You Guys Are so FUNN!!

[TatamPwns]

Lol that looks cool =)

[anonymous4849]

Where did you find that vintage 1970 ploter! LOL thats awesome!

[ollybillebobfishface]

u could make a program so it works like an ink-jet printer!

[kokakola666]

got it...

[thesouthparkguy]

I'd be very impressed if someone hooked up a computer to this and wrote a program that converted ASCII text into text written by that plotter thing. THAT would be cool! :D

[123Bulletcrazy123]

that is wat printers do or are

[oskay]

>I'd be very impressed if someone hooked up a computer to this and wrote a program that converted ASCII text into text written by that plotter thing.

That's what it's doing here. My program takes ascii text from a computer, programs it onto that chip, and writes it out.

[sweffe96]

Thats kidna sick. How did you program it too do that?

[oskay]

You might want to read the full article, linked in the video description.

[sergentxx55]

your awsome

[thesouthparkguy]

Wow! I need one! :D

[MorphieInvasion]

Awesome! Subscription to this guy is a must :P

[Macsareawesom]

EVIL MAD

[PhazonLink96]

Wicked. Can you make it write more stuff?

[crazyface1001]

holy i wan onbe of these

[trigga420]

cooooooool

[DunkLjud]

lol this shiit was fast xP

[thehigherdrake]

yer a fricken genious

[ritchbetch]

i think your cool

[jdgordon01]

Somewhat pointless, but fun! I want one!

[Darthwannabe]

Definately pwns those n00b 5 year olds drawings. ;P

[ALIENstupid]

BLAH BLAH BLAH i understand none of this

[lordphi]

good work; glad he's on our side

[stfumflolwtf]

Ha yeah so true. xD!

[ItsMeMarcusTee]

What value is there in something like this?

[ZeF2007inc]

accomplishment

[kadomox]

this guy is my hero. My room is full of useless machines too. This one is fun though. Nice work.

[sodacrack1234]

How long does it take you to make all your or some of your creations?

[oskay]

>How long does it take you to make all your or some of your creations?

This one took quite a while because I was still learning how to use the microcontroller. The font table was actually pretty complicated to make, too.

[waffleman444]

can it draw a picture

[pilmusic]

hehehe... Love it

[Hippie1abc]

wOOOOooooo lol

[morisganga]

its flexabel WOOOooo  HAHAHAHa

[kothog]

Talk a little too much. :) No worries though, was fun to watch the plotter running. Reminded me of my old VIC=20 printer-plotter.

[SMITHERSTHEMAGICIAN]

wow, i can write that easier on the original fisherprice thing and it costs a lot less.. only $20 to be exact :-)

[oskay]

>wow, i can write that easier on the original

Yeah, but I can plot trig functions faster on it than you can by hand. :)

[SMITHERSTHEMAGICIAN]

trig yes.... but not regular writing :-)

[ihaveaverybadcold]

you really need to get over yourself

[NLS87]

it's flexible wooooooooooooo

[thetopman15]

its flexible Wooo! and erasable:D

[euremuseu]

lol that is from a toy

[xldragonlx2]

LOL its flexibale wooooo

[kubilay]

do you set it up to write something !?!?!?!?

[oskay]

>do you set it up to write something !?!?!?!?

Yes, it needs to be programmed. It's an open-source project; you can download the source code if you follow the link.

[thuzjak3]

omg a small cnc machine!you are genius!

[patriconde]

yo lo usaria para hacer circuitos integrados, o aujeros en una plaqueta, pero obviamente adaptandole una aujereadora

[Skunkman50]

Hi Tech etch-a-sketch LOL

[frank26080115]

touch screens are just two variable resistors! Add 2 more resistor to one to make a voltage divider and you can have a robot that draws what you draw!

[n45w73]

Another good program for your micro controler could be, an eraser fonction, swap the pen for the magnet and let erase your display.

[oskay]

>swap the pen for the magnet and let erase your display.

Unfortunately, there's no way to erase it by moving a magnet over the top-- you'd have to move it underneath the display, and it's not obvious how to do that with the existing setup.

[miharu320]

WOW

[djavidu]

nice!!!

[TeMGM]

very nice!

[okihimus]

Cool, I thought about making something that draws pictures with the Etch-A-Sketch.

[kamarionizuka]

smart and conserving

[darkspaddz]

You want that y?

[andrechi]

"Flexible woooooooooooooooooooooooooo" lol

[Blober112]

awsome!! i want 1 now.. im not sure what for but lol why not,umm can you make it like draw a picture you have made on the program paint?

[oskay]

You can.

[Blober112]

Cool!

[MaiFlowers]

very creative, was quite interesting to watch. How were you able to get that writen. like was that previously programed to write that? Where would I happen to get my hands on one of these babys.

[oskay]

Yes, it's preprogrammed. Follow the link in the video description, there's a full how-to.

[OpachoSama]

I have a question, did you make this yourself or with someone or just take the video?

Nice video anyway ^^

[oskay]

Oh, it was just me and my tripod. =P

[radiocaf]

"Its flexible... WOOOO!" lmao!

Nice idea guys!

[graysonmillar]

Ok, creative, but why?

[greenlasers]

Wooooo its flexible XD

cool stuff by the way... its very simple but hard to come up with just like a paperclip :)

[McFlyalbert]

This is awsome, i do stuff like this to (check out my video, electronic lock). I was thinking about doing one of this plotters controlled from a pc, but i would like build the whole thing my self, do you know how the plotbot drives the x-y axys?? servos? steppers?

[oskay]

Internally, it uses analog servo motors, essentially DC gearmotors that are interfaced to large potentiometers that sense the position. Building one of your own isn't so very difficult.

[oskay]

Yup. 1970's plotter + 1970's kid's toy + modern microcontroller + ???? = PROFIT!

[lilbrudder32]

But I thought Phase 3 was profit? Cool project. Thanks for sharing! :)

[gardiin]

Wooo, the future's here!