Snowflakes

I finally tuned the plotter a bit to make it perform faster. I was trying to make it move faster by increasing the stepper motor speed, it turns out optimizing the pen up/down action was really where all the slowness was and makes everything appear to run faster. It’s quite spiffy now and I’ve been plotting non-stop this past week.

Snowflakes courtesy of llemarie @ turtletoy.net.

UV Ink Experiment

One advantage of a drawing machine working with coordinates is that it does not need to see what it draws.

Under the blue light

 

I bought a fountain pen with a refillable cartridge, and some UV ink.

 

The UV ink is invisible to the naked eye but the pen did leave trails on the paper.