Building your own CNC machine can present a series of varied challenges. There are the software considerations, but also the mechanical side of things – motors, shafts, screws and slides all need to ...

When you’re working with a development team, especially in a supporting capacity, you can often find yourself having to invent tools and support systems that are fairly involved, but don’t add to the ...

Computer plotters are a type of output device commonly used for computer-aided design applications, to output large vector designs such as architectural blueprints. By moving a pen mechanically, ...

Both wide-format printers and plotters create high-resolution image replication, but the methods of reproduction the two printer types use differ vastly due to file format, materials and subject ...

If you are interested in building your very own robot capable of drawing pictures of anything you ask it. You might be interested in a new project for a DIY CNC pen plotter which uses a little Arduino ...

The illustrator has been experimenting with tools outside of her usual sketchbook, tablet and computer – with fascinating ...

A type of pen plotter that wraps the paper around a drum with a pin feed attachment. The drum turns to produce one direction of the plot, and the pens move to provide the other. The plotter was the ...

Bay Area artist Raj Darshi's treatment on the intersection of technology and human creativity is hanging inside San Ramon ...