Thursday, March 19, 2015

01. Objective: build a 2D plotter

In the good old times of mechanics or architecture, designers would draw their blue prints with a pencil and Rotring isograph. Then came the 2D plotters. Then came the laser and jetink printers.

A Rotring isograph is different from laser or jetink printing: it draws a darker line of China ink.

I want to build the intermediate version: a 2D plotter that would still use a Rotring isograph and could be piloted from a PC so I can drw from my PC on large scale papers; say 1.50m x 2.00m.

From a cinematic point of view, it could look like this:



This blog goes step by step through my investigations to build this 2D plotter.

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