I wrote something pretty neat for Plottybot, and for the longest time I thought I should make it available on its own, and detached from the project. Then the most excellent Stuff Made Here guy made a writing machine, and ran into all the issues I ran into which drove me to write my own algorithms for capturing and replaying handwriting. My stuff wasn’t online then and that’s a shame, it was only available by building a Plottybot, or at least using its Pi image. Oh well.
As is tradition, I captured my kids’ handwritings as I do every year some time in the Winter. But this time I made sure to have the new site ready before Thanksgiving so that people could use it as they went and met with loved ones.
So here, this site serves the purpose of capturing one’s handwriting. It supports cursive, character variations, saving, and finally exporting to SVG & GCode. Hopefully this means you can use it with your favorite craft machine for the coolest of personalized projects.
https://ben.akrin.com/plottytools/
Hey Tom,
thank you for the suggestion, I want to keep this specifically targeted for handwriting and not dilute its purpose, I extracted it from the PlottyBot stack for just that :).
If you want a viewer without the plotter being online, I think it might just work if you “save the website” from your browser so it’ll be available offline. Or you know you can use this of course, I’ll reconsider if I hear more people wanting a separate viewer but for now you’re the only one :).
Thank you for the recommendation, it’s nice to hear from people who built a PlottyBot.
Hi Ben,
I sometimes wonder if you could go a step further.
Could this place be a Viwer?
My Gcode pasted into the space gives the code output for plottybot.
We don’t always have access to the Raspberry Pi, and the Gcode doesn’t always work.
This could be a place to check online.