Category: plots

Pictures don’t do justice to what it looks like in person unfortunately.

Sheep courtesy of reinder @ turtletoy.net.

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.

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.

Someone in Brazil drew this on Mandalagaba years ago and I’ve used it to stress test plotters since :). I wish I could get in touch to show them.

This one was cursed, I’ve been trying it for months and something would always go wrong. It’s been an endurance test and I’ve made adjustments from the results. It takes about 3 hours to run.

Hexagon Truchet tiles courtesy of reinder @ turtletoy.net.