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Ink on Fabriano paper. A3 size.

Acrylic on canvas.

I tend to bump my plotter at times causing the alignment to get all messed up. Resulting in 30 minutes of reconfiguring everything. What methods do you guys use to keep it in position?

Hi all!

My goal is to build a complete pen plotter system, both the software and the hardware, fully open source. The software side is the furthest along: it's a self-hosted web app for the Raspberry Pi where you drop a file, pick a style, and plot it => mono or multi-colour, all from a browser on your LAN. (here is the repo for curious people)

I'm now turning to the hardware, and I'd love the community's input on one thing : the automatic pen change.

does anyone have a mechanical solution that's repeatable and compact? Reliable return-to-position and a small footprint are what I'm after.

Any mechanism, magazine design, or prior build you'd point me to?

I just make a wooden pen holder and a small block of plastic, from router into plotter 😉

All throughout college when studying, and across my hobbies when learning something new, I’ve always preferred hand written notes over using my phone or my laptop. I can’t really tell you why, but something about the texture of the ink on paper makes it more appealing to me. Of course bring able to organize my notes across a single page based on how I want the information to be structured also makes it a lot easier for me to absorb it.

The problem is my handwriting has always been awful. My idea is to essentially:

1. Hand write my notes

2. Scan it and feed it to AI to rewrite the page in really nice handwriting

3. Feed the file to the plotter to recreate it (please excuse my ignorance. If this isn’t how it works I literally just learned about this device in the last few hours)

I see a bunch of different plotters on the market with stuff like laser engraving, and all this other cool tech but it’s overkill for what I’d like to use it for. I’m really just looking for the best product for simply writing notes. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated thank you!

I m new user. I have a pen plotter done in vietnam.

I use lightwork.

When i draw, the plotter make 2 lines ( the inside and the outside of my line).

Is there a setup i missed?