Koliko sam ja shvatio iz teksta ovi ljudi su napravili ploter za sebe i na internetu mogu da se nadju seme za ovakvu spravicu. Jel neko ima iskustva sa ovim, recite mi koliko je moguce i naravno koliko bi kostalo da znam vredi li gubiti vreme sa ovim!
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build your own plotter
drawing, cutting and milling
with stepper motors
A plotter is a drawing device
which is typically not affordable for
private use, particularly when
large paper formats are involved.
However if you feel you have suitable
stepper motors and the necessary
mechanical skills, why not
have a go at building a plotter
yourself? The results may more
than adequate.
Long-standing readers of this magazine are sure to remem-
ber our Plotter design described in the May and June 1988
issues. This was followed by a Mark II version (March 1990)
gressed since.
ists who not only design and build their own plotters, but are
also willing and able to share their knowledge with other
to this subject. His plotter page at
and a large number of programs for driving such a device
tion to the control programs (adapted for different types of
driver IC), there’s a collection of conversion programs, for
The site is also valuable for its collection of links to other
plete DIY descriptions of plotters and fraising machines to
Homebuilt Plot-
tion on plotters.
Another interesting plotter page is
bies
A beautiful home-made CNC fraising machine is shown
on the web by BCS Computerssysteme
should be noted though that this device is a private devel-
A plotter is a drawing device
which is typically not affordable for
private use, particularly when
large paper formats are involved.
However if you feel you have suitable
stepper motors and the necessary
mechanical skills, why not
have a go at building a plotter
yourself? The results may more
than adequate.
build your own plotter
drawing, cutting and millingwith stepper motors
electronics on lineelectronics on-line
and extended control software (September 1991). These
were once revolutionary articles, but technology has pro-
We were a little surprised to see that there are still hobby-
interested people. The Internet contains a vast amount of
such information which is accessible to everyone.
The first enthusiast we should mention here is Luberth
Dijkman who, a big plotter fan himself, drew our attention
http://home.wxs.nl/~luberth/plotter/plotter.htm
is a kind of repository of material on plotters. It contains,
among others, information on Luberth’s own DIY plotter,
from a computer. Software is available for different ‘plat-
forms’ as well as in different programming languages (QBA-
SIC, Pascal, C) — there’s something to suit everyone! In addi-
example, for conversion of true-type fonts into vector format.
internet sites covering the same subject, ranging from com-
suppliers of parts kits for home construction.
Luberth also presides and moderates the
ter Discussion Forum which is open to everyone with a ques-
Scumari Technohob-
run by Rick Schuitemaker at
http://www.scumari.demon.nl/plotter/plotnl.htm
from Germany. It
opment and that BCS does not supply any parts for the project.
The URL is
http://www.bcs-computersysteme.com/software/cnc/index.htm
Even in Brazil, plotters are being designed and built, as may
be seen at
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/3215/plotter.htm-
Remarkably, this site contains link to Luberth Dijkman’s site!
If you want to know more about building a really large
plotter, take a look at Dave’s E-Size Plotter at
http://www.innova.net/~plumpe/plotter.html
Dave Rigotti is one of a number of private persons offering
components fr building a plotter, like stepper motors and
driver ICs:
http://hometown.aol.com/drigotti/HobbyCNC.htm
If you do not mind a lot of mechanical work, then lots
of inspiration may be obtained from the websites mentioned
here.
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Elektor Electronics 3/2000