This is a small CNC plotter I built using stepper drives from old DVD drives and it’s my first CNC project. It may be small but I learned a lot about CNCs while building this. I created a custom software in Processing with which you can plot any graphics or text just by creating a PNG image.
Currently I’ve only implemented the plotting by means of horizontal lines as you can see in the video. I’ll implement the rest of the features including the plotting by points and a freehand methods soon. My summer vacation is over now, so I had to publish this.
It took me more than a month to make this project this far. I spent all my summer vacation on this. I’m happy how it turned out to be.
The full project documentation will be available on my website http://www.vishnumaiea.in
The source code is freely available at my GitHub profile : https://github.com/vishnumaiea/Mini-CNC-Plotter
Background music is “Final Destination” by Talamanca : https://soundcloud.com/talamanca
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