DIY printer and linear drives 

Thanks for exploring unusual ways to use things, it gives inspiration to engineers, makers and hackers !

Best Channel Ever. I love this guy he has taught me so much. Thank you.

Very good ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

you're totally amazing, each of your works are incredibly innovative and very creative. Every work of yours I learn new things! I love your work! Keep it up!

i just wanted to say thank you for putting time and effort i really do enjoy your videos

Amazing + ingenious work, it's appreciated greatly. Thank you!

Thank you for your instructive, useful and amazing videos!

Excellent work, presentation

I learn something new in every video you upload:D

Awesome video as always Thank You so much! I always learn something with every video.

That was very informative. Thank you for this video. I can see it took a great deal of work.

Yet another outstanding video! Thank you!

Great practical presentation. Thanks a lot.

One of the best channels on RU-vid if you ask me! Awesome work!

We need more peoaple like you , make 10 min video and learn something. And you explain every part of the machine , thanks.

Man, that is fun video. I love the fact that you caption all videos. :)

Very educational, a video worth watching.

Excellent contraptions!

A really good and clear video, I like.

You re genius. Greetings from México

you build the coolest stuff :D

Amazing, in so many ways!

you are a genius, love your stuff, thank-you

You make great videos that are very instructive. Thanks! I'd be interested in learning about the mechanical build components. The way you use bearings, the reason for the nuts around the bearings, the play of the threaded rod (it visibily fluctuates around its axis).

Excellent Demo!!

Thanks so much for teaching this stuff. Mechathronic is a very interesating thing to study!! I Always wanted to build my own cnc, i even scrap some steppers from copy machines, but i didn't found a realiable way to build linear guides.

it is very interesting to see your videos and the way you use scrap material that usually got thrown away in this society. great videos :-). Friendly greetings, Jörgen

Excellent as usual!

Simply amazing, reminds me of my first printer. I had a C64 printing graphics to a 9 pin dot matrix printer. It literally took an hour to print out a turtle graphic 9x10" on a single sheet of paper in low resolution. I thought back then that instead of using the God aweful slow serial bus on the Commodore 64 that they could have interfaced a printer thought the User's interface, being its an 8 bit bus. Curious to me why that bus was ignored by developers.

Great work as usual. When i see the solenoid hitting the paper I think you can make a CNC embroidery Machine :)

Wow; That is pretty awesome. Thank you.

thanks for the video and for the dedication soy de Argentina me gustaria un video en español ya que mi ingles no es tan bueno... I congratulate you !!!

Excellet, thank you very much for this video!

You show great ideas in your videos! These ideas came to me and of course to many others, but I lack knowledge to bring them to life.

Nice one man, keep it up !

Another great video!

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You never stop surprising :D

Great video, thank you!

This is cool on many levels

really like your videos ☺ (especially the CNC ones). funny thing about this one is that, with this paint delivering method, you basically created the prototype of an automated tattooing machine 😉.

simply great. thanks.

This is a dream! You should perfect it using opensource and old patents

Great Job.

Very good amazing video!!

Wow! I learned a lot... In teery!!

Excellent!

great video as ever . love the mouse idea. the printer makes me think of a automated tattoo printer .LOL

Hi, nice post. I would like to know what make and model the printer you got the cart from had.

Awesome video, you are very good at explaining complex topics. Do you have any instructional material on combining say a printer with a scanner to use for laser cutting or as a base for a router?

Wonderful!!!!!!

Line strip in printer is used for speed control. I always thought that is used for position but when I disconnect sensor carriage start to move very fast. I try to measure frequency on drum line strip and it was 20khz.

Seems like Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new career.

Bravo!

what is the name of the softwear you used with arduino to draw the picture ?!

How hard would it be to optimize the printing software, so the carriage doesn't have to move all the way to each side, every time?

The best!

Genius!

Hi; I'm interested in how you arranged the ink reservoir; could you explain it, please? I cannot find any info regarding it on the project page...

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5:54 Combining ideas, could an IR sensor be used with a encoder made if various IR filter films? Similar to the resistor array, each position would have a measurable opacity to IR light. This should in theory create identifiable voltage values from the detector. What do you think?

This may not be the best printer I've ever seen, but I'm pretty sure it's the first robotic tattoo gun I've seen!

Excellent Video. Please provide more info on how you interfaced printer sensors (IR) with the MCU.

Very interesting video, how did you get the wiring of the linear optical sensor for the printer scavenged part ? I got a 6-pin sensor unfortunately i cannot solder cables to the pins because they put anti-soldering compound on the board, I now have the choice between trying to use the 12-pins ribbon cables or unsolder the component, what do you recommend? Would I be able to use a bought optical sensor and how would I choose one for this linear strip ? Thanks in advance for all these questions and keep up the great content.

thanks you

I love it

Hi! How I can use linear encoder with Arduino? I have linear encoder from HP Printer (Looks same than you).. I've tried power optical encoder but led doesn't light..

Oh no! I just took apart the linear drives of the printers that I had laying around, thinking this would be too hard to do. But now I see it's actually really easy!! I wanted to build a pen plotter with the old printer parts.. Now I'll have to salvage more printers haha :D So you use the 'Double H Bridge L298N' to drive the linear motors?

Can I make a question? How did you made the "list of commands" for the arduino to produce your channel logo? I've builted a similar printer with a ball pen to write, and write not so baldly with GRBL code. But I'm not able to transform any image to G-code. Do you guys have any suggestions? HomoFaciens Help please!

good courses

please do a tutorial on a cnc plotter with two linear encoder drives which uses g code and processing ide to print

I like this so much ! Is the print head a DIY project or hs it been scavaged from a (very) old printer ? I would like to do something similar for latte printing !

ok i have a question er, rather a few of them. I have an old large format plotter, the motors are rotary encoded DC motors, the various sensors are linear encoders. The original computer was old, 1993, didnt have the patience to try to get it to interface with my iMac. So i got an arduino. I know that the motors will require H Bridges, but can it effectively run 2 motors, and 3 linear encoders to use as a plotter again? the pen holder is a relay engaged device with a small encoder on one end. Can the arduino do all of this?

Nice one, I also make one cnc plotter with a stepper motor bt it has no feed back loop, how can i add that,can you help me

Wow Great

Hi Mr Norbert , Using the same mechanism (printer). Can you replace the dc motor and replace it with a Stepper motor? I want to change DC motor to Stepper Motor. Thank you very much. Best Regards. Necmettin.

Compliments !!!

I'm asking a lot of questions here but how would one proceed to replace the DC motor with a stepper one without dismantling the belt ? I cannot seem to keep the plastic gear but remove the spindle out of it without moving the belt :/

thank's for your videos now i'm thinking to Maje an THC for plasma and an AC motor positioning system with an inverter to move

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What about inertia? Would it make sense to slow down as the set point is reached?

I read below that the printer resolution is 1 mm. Is there a way to improve this resolution by rewriting the code? maybe using interpolation

for people who are getting scribbling like drawings from DVD step-motor CNC plotter machine, i give you correct and proven changes for proper out put, try it and get corrected! (01) most people with "baby scribbling drawing output"due to low Watt power supply(less than 10W) SO give 5V 2Amp power supply - your cnc need (@least 10W power input) ,if not this will correct try with 12V, 1Amp power supply but this will heat up your DVD step-motors and 3 ICs of L293D so use fan to heat loss in 12v power supply. IF STILL SCRIBBLING DO CHANGES GIVEN BELLOW these changes should be done in Arduino CODES you upload to your CNC (02) StepMilimeterMax - for each 1cm of your maximum length or width of drawing area this value should be multiplied by 25, my cnc drawing area is 5cm X 5cm square shaped area, so my StepMilimeterMax is 5cm x25 =125 (every one who made CNC with normal DVD step-motors has nearly 5cm x 5cm area,so StepMilimeterMax =125) if StepMilimeterMax is 125 output is BIG pictures and letters WITH OVER FLOWING EDGES FROM 5cmx5cm (03) these factors given bellow should be in given values for 5cmx5cm drawing area (a) Line buffer -should be 512 ( if >512 effect is #) (b) XSetSpeed & YSetSpeed -should be 200 (if >200 effect is #) (c) Char Buffer -should be 64 (if >64 effect is #) #- unusual Hum and vibration from your DVD step-motors. (04) Line Delay - should be 50 if this is 0 - left half of your picture/text write on whole 5cm x5cm area and right half is over write on same 5cm x 5cm area if this is 50 - no OVER LAPPING (05) pen servo Delay- should be 100 if >100 - at the point of same text or picture section write by your CNC more than once, second and next writings are not write on first writing so this make "BLUR EFFECT" CORRECT YOUR ARDUINO CODES ACCORDING TO ERROR TYPE GIVEN ABOVE AND GET SUCCEEDED AND WRITE YOUR COMMENTS!

Regarding the 8:22 part - this is awesome and simple, but I don't understand how it works. The wire is sticking from hole in reservoir full of paint? How the ink doesn't leak from the hole? What is the actual printing action? At first I thought like the wire sticks out of the reservoir and retracts back, bringing drop of into on the paper, but it doesn't seem to work this way. I looked at the pictures on your blog, those are big and detailed, but I can't say I understood it any better.

I want to make cnc machine I have two same linear drives with big dc motor but I cant find code for controling two motors for same axis.I want to use linear endoder of corse so two incoders for one axis. Can you help ?

Wow, I guess you could even make a cnc using only ice cream sticks :)

can you share the design? how do you control the printhead?

VERY GOOD YOUR WORK FRIEND HOW I GET THIS PROJECT FROM THIS PROTTER

this would be interesting as a DTG Printer (soloution Printer for UV cureable ink)

Thanks for watching and... I'LL BE BACK

How to make step by step....please the make diy head..fantastic!!

How i found the part and all Sarkis

Could you please provide the code for print head control with arduino??

sir how to use that software in windows computer

I envy this guy....

I feel like Arnold Schwarzenegger is teaching me electronics

Hi nice video, Is possible in other video that you explain how program and send commands to arduino for make images similar to example of the video, I see in your website the files for make the encoders and the sketch but many of this using terminal commands and don´t understand how to using for controlling the motors with encoders, thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

interesting, could be easily modified using a laser from a dvd writer

Hey arnold, you are building a smart terminator, dontcha?

Really need help in creating a revolutionary product. Please tell me where to contact