Good project, but do not give up. You may try to increase the Z Lift Height and surface should be flat i hope you continue, this is how we learn
@bolbolzaboon4 ай бұрын
Exactly what I was looking for!
@wrekced7 ай бұрын
@Pepi This is a great project! I would suggest some 3 in 1 oil or sewing machine oil for your lubricant. WD40 is a water displacing penetrating oil that dries out and can make your plotter malfunction by increasing the resistance to movement. The problem with the pen going up when it should go down sounds like a problem with the controlling logic. I.E. the logic is inverted. Try flipping the command to raise/lower the pen. I don't have a pen plotter and I'm not going to make one right now. But this project shows me some things I was curious about with Chat GPT. Thanks for this video. I think that documenting your progress like this will help a lot of people. Too many project videos do not show the awkward or difficult parts of figuring out how to do something. This creates a blind spot for potential difficulties others might experience when recreating the project. You do a good job presenting your work.
@WormiCollective6 ай бұрын
Sorry for the late reply, but this comment is so encouraging, thank you so much for your words of encouragement! We really hope that such videos help people understand the process of creating/ making hardware projects better, so we are really happy that you feel that way :) Thanks for your tip on WD-40, I actually never knew that, and that will defo help in my next project!!
@JuliaDaser8 ай бұрын
YESSS lets go Pepi!!! This is so cool!
@NabilTouchie8 ай бұрын
really interesting, at first i thought it would use ai to generate handwriting, wich is pretty hard as proved by "stuff made here"
@fhunter1test3 ай бұрын
small roller (like furniture one, for wardrobe sliding door, for example) would greatly help with friction of support
@WormiCollective2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your suggestion!
@THEG4MINGLEGEND4 ай бұрын
amazing work !
@live_let_live2984 ай бұрын
if you use a bearing instead of that L shape you will surely have a smoother sliding of the X axis "my Opinion"
@WormiCollective2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your suggestion :)
@walterhynson28985 ай бұрын
GRBL pen plotter was a nightmare for me too so I load the drawing into "Inkscape" then save it as a .dfx file (which saves it as mathmatic points now load this .dxf file into F-engrave by "Scorchworks" and F-engrave will convert the file into gcode. Now on the penplotter set the pen at the 0/0 location and in the F-engrave be sure to set the tool depth to -.003 now I use a ball point pen to draw on my plotter and I take the pen apart and lock only the bottom barrel into the holder (remove the spring) now drop the ink pen tube into the barrel now adjust only the barrel so when the Z=-0.003 the pen tip is on the paper and when the z=3.0 (pen up) the pen tip is off the paper also set the Z up as 3.0mm in F-engrave. I hope you understand
@WormiCollective2 ай бұрын
Whoa this is extremely detailed!!! I appreciate your explanation and your suggestion! If i get back to it, I will be sure to try out your comment, and Im sure your comment also helps anyone else attempting to try this out :)
@esser50k6 ай бұрын
this is a really nice idea! I might have to try that on my custom plotter. Regarding the GRBL code changes, I've never used it but I was thinking that there maybe is a command-line tool to do the uploads and you could redirect them?
@WormiCollective6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your words of encouragement and your tip!! I didn't think of using the command-line tool, and I'll actually try to test it out when re-visiting the project! Let me know how it goes for you/ if the command-line idea works for you!
@cyberlaurent21016 ай бұрын
You're a genious !
@polymathicgdub7 ай бұрын
very cool project! for that sliding foot, maybe try some strips of PTFE adhesive backed tape?
@WormiCollective2 ай бұрын
Thank you for the suggestion :)
@nagamanihegde9609Ай бұрын
can you try universal g code sender software instead of grbl ? for g code i use inkscape
@rootvalue8 ай бұрын
Super unethical. Blocking this channel.
@revdancatt7 ай бұрын
Lol, someone didn't even bother to watch the video, the work done here is great.