Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Pen plotter

Today I got my 3D printer to work as a 2D printer! Well not really a printer, but a pen plotter. I printed out a pen holder that attached to my printing head from Thingiverse, which can be found here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:29228 . I then used a python script called cad.py in order to turn an image into GCODE that my printer could understand. More info on the script and how to get it to work can be found here: http://capolight.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/converting_images_to_gcode/ The next step is to attach swivel knife in order to use my printer as a die-cutter! Here are the results of my experiment:

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