It would be so cool to write/print literature with this. Almost steampunk?/cyberpunk? whatever, I wish that machines like this become more common place.
Brian, I think that's a wonderful diagnostic tool and a good allocation of your time. I look forward to getting an "autographed" print of that sphere! Just make sure you set mine to left-handed writing. :)))
Someone needs to write a g code so that the pen will keep the letters connected, just like normal handwriting, and come back to dot all the I's and cross the T's. I think other than it would look nicer, it would speed up the process. I'll try to work on this myself once I get some time
The test page is awesome. Yes like you said it can be a good precise testing rig. Besides it is cool. Not to confused as replacement of handwritten letter substitute.
the former german chancelor helmut kohl employed a similar machine back in 1987. as was reported in the magazine "der spiegel" 49/2017 he wrote a letter to each of the then more than 700,000 members of his party in order to ensure a good standing within the party. the letter itself was full of petty, generic pleasantries and was typewritten. the signature however was made with a machine that guided a fountain pen along a stencil. as this was done in secret by trusted staff members, the idea was that the recipients of the letter took it for real and felt honored by the seamingly hand-signed letter.
Como fazer a máquina escrever assim essa seqüência? A minha aqui escolher eleatoriamente os pontos da escrita e desenho. Fica mais interessante fazer a axidraw usar esse movimento.
I have a pen plotter I'm using to write "handwritten" letters on 8.5"W x 10.9"H wide ruled lined paper. I use Inkscape to set up the letter, format the text, and generate gcode for the plotter. I'm having trouble getting the text to align properly.
I'm sure you could add some "soul" into it by introducing a small amount of randomness to the paths or even to the controller if it can be reprogrammed.
Gostaria de saber, como faço para a minha plotter escrever como esse texto. Os textos tem que ser em arquivo formato dxf ou qual seria ? E parabéns p/ canal
You need to differentiate between AI generated, and computer synthesized. Electronic music very much has soul, as an artist is still required to compose and play it.
Aw I'd feel horrible selling one. If you are in the US, we'll just send you one. If you are international, just cover postage. Email brian@edisonpen.com Thanks!
I just got one of these printers and Struggling a lot to get something that looks like handwritten out of this machine. I was wondering what software you use?
The pressure is not the weight of the pen + weight of the holder + something else. The weights don't matter since the machine is suspending them - the machine can apply whatever pressure it's set to, within its range.
This is cool! This might not replace human handwriting, but I would be happy for it to replace my laser printer. I am expecting a pen from you in November. I hope to get a letter made on this.
Hi, I'm looking to build something like this myself, I was just wondering if you guys developed this yourself or is it the AxiDraw product? If you guys did develop it can you release the build log?
I used a HP plotter in 1984 with a 6 pen carousel - want to say it was HP 7475a. Now - they weren't fountain pens but my guess is the ideas are adaptable.
i just picked up a Schlumberger 1850 plotter with a 8 pen carousel that im converting to an arduino based plotter. Im replacing the power supply, computer, and motors with a board that 3d printers use nowadays as well as both stepper motors. i hope to get it working as soon as all my parts arrive. if it works then im going to work on getting it to cut vinyl and hopefully fabric.
Don't be so shy and apologizing about that. I think that thing is fancy! In fact, i have been dreaming of a device exactly like that because i don't have a printer and don't want to buy those expensive ink cartridges that printers require.
indeed, even if in the end there's a machine, there's so many things about typography, font, and how to make a letter or some simple text not completely soulless, with the kerning, spacing, little details a lot of people ignore. i love writing sometimes, and myself i draw in various fonts when i pick my rotrings. boredom? autism? idk. it's all part of the beauty of writing a message.
Pen plotters are not something new. You can buy any old pen plotter and make it work with your computer. Most are designed for felt tip pens but could easily be adapted for fountain pen use.
If your primary problem with printers is the ink cartridges, there is at least one printer on the market which has ink reservoirs that you can just pour the ink in, instead of putting in a cartridge. It seemed like a cost-effective solution for our household when our old printer broke, but the one we have does have an issue where sometimes if it hasn't been used for a while we have to force power it off by unplugging it and plugging it back in. However, if a pen plotter works for your purposes just as well or better, then that sounds like a cool solution.
I ready to buy, I have one doubt , one boke page have lots of words , how to write this , same copying book to A4 one page or can extend to second page... please clarify it...
Hi there. I saw your comment about our pen plotter earlier, but I can't find it now. I'd be happy to do a writing sample to accompany any Signature Line Pen, but our font is certainly not what most would consider for calligraphy. So if you want to mimic this, I'd advise against it. Rather, I'd recommend a book on calligraphy.
It depends on what you want to print. For example, if you wanted to print an image with 6 colors, you would have to print on the same paper 6 different times with 6 different colored pens. A pen plotter works great with stuff that is made out of lines, like an architect's blueprint for example. You can print lots and lots of stuff with a pen plotter, but it surely doesn't substitute a printer, a printer can use a full range of colors and it's so, so much faster. Hope to have answered you!
This is the second time I've watched this video, and this time I've noticed that you could do a lot to optimize your gcode. For starters, you have a lot of travels. Making that sphere it could have gone left then right then left then right. Instead it traveled back across the sphere every time. Also, a more complicated thing to optimize would be the cursive writing. Like, cursive is all very continuous, so why does it lift up for each letter and do all the strokes out of order?
No, I use inexpensive indian ink in art supplies stores, I refill my Rotrings with it. Ink from HP/Epson are not better, but Idocrats keep buying those. If time is an issue, buy a second hand laser printer from office supplies. Toners on big ones are usually refillable and generic ones cause no issue.
With regards to the pressure that a writer should place on his/her fountain pen (nib) if the Nuns who taught me how to write cursive are correct. The writer should not be placing any downward pressure on the pen (nib) nor should the writer griping the pen with any force. A properly tuned/working fountain pen should lay down a consistent line of ink on the writing surface with only the weight of the pen upon it. Your fingers and hand should be a rest (cradle) for the pen to sit in only and arm movement not finger movement should be how the writer is forming letter and words being written. I was instructed that someone (teacher) should be able to come up from behind you and remove the pen from you hand with two fingers and then be able to place or slide you pen it back into your hand and allow you to continue to write; of course Sister Mary Teresa had no qualms about snacking us in the back of the head if she felt gripping your pen and Heaven forbid you "pressing" down on your pen. In case you are wonder after more than 40 years I still have the dents on the back of my skull to remind me of the errors of my ways. Now in case you are wondering if the above is just me making up stories you can always read a penmanship instruction manual from the end of the 19th century thru the beginning of the 20th century and look at what the master's and teacher's of penmanship have to say. (A good place to look for free is [ www DOT archive DOT org/search.php?query=penmanship ] or [ www DOT iampeth DOT com ] Besides they are not bad places to find quality instruction books \ manuals so that you can improve your own penmanship. Might I suggest that you retire all of you ballpoint pens for starters I guarantee the Bic Stic and its cousins regardless of price were a major reason that my handwriting turned into a unreadable scrawl for years
Wow, that is some bland ass handwriting. It is entirely normal for handwriters to vary the pressure they're placing on the pen to achieve varying thickness. This would be like painting, but refusing to use more than one colour.
I disagree with Brian completely, the reason the lettering looks 'souless' is due to the FONT the machine is using is 'souless'. What the Edison Pen company needs to do is create a font based off of Brian's own handwriting. The plotter will then faithfully re-create Brian's 'soulful' handwriting in letters to all those who buy their pens. problem solved. Brian should not slag computers if he doesn't know any thing about them.
Spoder Man it's really easy to just make the font randomly use different variations of the same letters. 2 or 3 might still be repetitive, but if you had 50, or even 100 variations, you aren't going to notice the repetition as much.
Also, if the machine was adjusted to roll the pen a tiny bit depending on where it is, and use random pressure (within reason) it would also add a lot of character to the writing as well.
that would require a couple more of small servos. i just wonder if a software like Illustrator, which stores the angle from a tablet, and has this vectorized would allow a plotter to reproduce this.