om2 / projects / Erik the Wall Plotter

2011-12-16

Inspired by several other vertical wall-plotters we saw online, my buddy Will and I built Erik, a drawing robot.

erik

It uses two stepper motors to pull a pen around a canvas. But the pen cannot be lifted! So there are some interesting path-generation challenges. The software that interfaces with the controller board was written by us and it's available on github.