I love it very much.
Esther’s Plotter
Built Me Another
I can make them pretty fast now, I bought top notch stepper drivers and servos for it. It’s so much quieter than the previous one. I’m learning that it makes no sense to buy cheap hardware when you’re not doing volume. The few bucks saved will be paid for many times over in wasted time. I took pictures for documentation but I’m not sure if I’ll have the time to sink into it.
A lot of refinements went into this one, from the thousands of hours that the previous model was in use.
This was the very first model, built long before I got into tabletop plotters:
It’s pretty pathetic to look at 🙂 but it was a good stepping stone. I built another other one for teaching based on cheap 28BYJ-48 steppers. All this to say Gondola PlottyBot v2 is very much the result of a journey.
SketchyBot 1.0
I finally built a standard sized one. I ran into a few unexpected challenges given how smooth the small one went.
It really isn’t the most accurate machine, the belts inside aren’t timed, but it does pretty ok with some rendering algorithm and is fun.