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Week 16 - Wild Card

  • A digital process
  • You have to make something
  • define your own specification

I want to…

  • Learn more about G-Code,
  • Do something relevant for my final project,
  • Come up with a new way to use a machine,
  • Prevent a broken USB micro connector, which gets looser each use.

So, I’m thinking…

To hack a pen plotter and add more features. Document the custom G-code, and steps (We would be losing the Axi-Draw Firmware I’m pretty sure, but adding Wi-Fi and an SD Card Reader). Add paint pot and other tool features (has to be inside the A4, so reduces the usable size).

We have an AxiDraw v3 (A4 version),

AxiDraw

And a FluidNC TMC2209 controller by Bart Dring.

TMC2209

And a few of these types of fans:

Vacuum Table

The board on the AxiDraw is this one (EggBot Board, v 2.7) by Brian Schmalz.

CC Attribution

EggBotBoard by Brian Schmalz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License .

Acquired by Bre Pettis, to be part of Bantam Tools in NYC.

The Bantam Tools version is called NextDraw.

Up to and including v3, the software license is GNU General Public License v2.0.

Not sure about the hardware yet. But the EBB is CC Attrubution, by Brian Schmalz.

Looking at the terminals on the EBB and the Fluid NC board looks like a pretty straightforward swap to get started…

HAxiDraw With Paints