Elliot Madsen's Pen Plotter Upcycles an Old 3D Printer into Something New — with an Arduino UNO Q
Mechanical engineering and computer science student Elliot Madsen has turned parts from a scrapped 3D printer into a two-dimensional pen plotter — powered by an Arduino UNO Q "dual-brain" single-board computer (SBC).
"While pen plotters are no longer used to plot designs because of the now comparable cost and much greater speed of inkjet and laser printers," Madsen says, in an about-face from their heavy use in the early days of computer-aided design, "they are an important part of engineering heritage. The point of this project was to build my own so that I could plot my own designs and projects that I am proud of in order to have permanent keepsakes from them."
Got a CoreXY 3D printer heading for the scrapheap? Why not convert it into a 2D pen plotter instead? (📷: Elliot Madsen)
The Madsen Pen Plotter's frame and motors are salvage, taken from a scrapped 3D...
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