Vertical xy plotter drawing an SVG on my bedroom wall

My DIY plotter drawing Bender's head, the ratio is way off, but this was just a test. You can see some Peter Griffin heads in the top right corner that were drawn earlier. This is the 1st video of my DIY vertical x-y plotter. There are still some issues with the software and there is probably some improvements I could make to the hardware to increase accuracy. More videos to come.

Driven by Arduino, communicating via Python, picture source is a scalable vector graphic (SVG).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• XY
• Plotter
• Arduino
• Python
• SVG
• PlotBot

[baloneyjazz]

Hi,

Nice job. I made a couple of those and am just working on the software.

Did you find a method of submitting the svg directly?

Darcu

[rockthecatzva]

@baloneyjazz Thanks! I used a python script to convert the SVG into x and y points relative to the canvas size (ex, x=83%, y=30%). The python script also sends the x/y points to the arduino. I didn't think of sending the svg directly to the arduino, but that is an interesting idea. I've been thinking about making a new version at some point.

[joansunyol]

Very interesting, I'm looking for doing something very similar. Can you tell us more details of the scripts that you are using?