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Hidden line removal for AxiDraw
We’re pleased to note the release of AxiDraw software version 3.9 this week, with a couple of neat new features. One of them is that the “preview mode” button — which lets you simulate plotting to see...
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Featured artist: Michael Fogleman
Michael Fogleman is an active member of the plotter art community. His twitter feed often contains either new art, or links to new tools that he has made. He has created and shared some incredible...
View ArticleNew EggBot Software Version
We are pleased to announce a major revision for the EggBot software with several significant improvements. It is now updated to support Inkscape 0.92. We have also streamlined the EggBot menu within...
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Stroke fonts from Quantum Enterprises
One of the features in our new Hershey Text v 3.0 software is the ability to extend it with new fonts. One company, Quantum Enterprises, is already selling high quality stroke fonts that are compatible...
View ArticleThe AxiDraw CLI and Python API
Following the release of our new AxiDraw software this week, we are pleased to announce the release of two additional software components that greatly extend the capability of the machine. The AxiDraw...
View ArticleHershey Text v 3.0
Some years ago we wrote a neat little Inkscape extension called Hershey Text. Hershey text could take a little bit of text that you would type and render it into stroke fonts, also known as engraving...
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New AxiDraw Software v 2.5
We’re pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the AxiDraw software, 2.5. which includes a number of frequently-requested features that we’ve been working on over the last year. An...
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Featured artist: Sash Zats
Sash Zats is a designer and generative artist working with AxiDraw. You can find him on instagram and twitter. One of the things about Sash’s work that I enjoy is his choices of materials. He often...
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AxiDraw, JavaScript, and Generative Art
Matt DesLauriers published a two-part blog post, Pen Plotter Art & Algorithms exploring his JavaScript workflow with AxiDraw and generative art. Unlike a typical printer, a plotter produces prints...
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Using the WaterColorBot to teach programming
JR has been volunteering in a high school programming class and wrote up a thoughtful post about his experiences using the WaterColorBot in the classroom. He wrote a Python library that allows users...
View ArticleAxiDraw and TouchDesigner
We’ve noticed a few artists on twitter and instagram using TouchDesigner as a tool in their workflow toward creating output with AxiDraw. #TouchDesigner #AxiDraw Combination of two patterns...
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AYAB v0.90 is here!
The All Yarns Are Beautiful project has just released a new version of the AYAB software, v0.90! It’s a bugfix-release, that means it fixes mostly known issues and no additional features are...
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Stippled Ceramics
HEXceramic posted examples of using StippleGen to create lasered molds for making ceramic tiles. Very cool!
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Holiday Cards with AxiDraw
Pitch Interactive, a data visualization studio, sent out “Happy Holidata” cards made using the AxiDraw. This year’s card features a snowflake that uses two data points in its generation: how long...
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Hilbert Curve Cat
Shy wrote in to tell us about a tool he created to generate Hilbert curves from images for plotting called Image2Hilbert. (Main GitHub project link, here: ) Shy says: I added a calculation in the...
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Game of Life at the Hill Country Science Mill
The Hill Country Science Mill just posted a photo that Sean Ragan took of the Interactive Game of Life display we made for them. It’s awesome to see it in action!
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Politicians To Poop: A Chrome extension
Politicians To Poop is a new extension for the Chrome web browser that replaces the names of presidential candidates (US, 2016) with the “pile-of-poo” emoji. Options allow you to “poopify” the names...
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Meggy Jr RGB + WaterColorBot
Our friend Schuyler hooked up our Meggy Jr RGB hand-held video game platform up to control the WaterColorBot. He wrote on twitter: I got the @EMSL Meggy Jr RGB working with the @MakerSylvia...
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More CNC Stipple Art
Mikkel posted on Twitter: A CNC piece of the lovely @tweetsbyallie using @EMSL ‘s Stipplegen.
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Inkscape version 0.91
A new version of our favorite vector graphics software, Inkscape, was just released! It’s faster and better than ever. We’re particularly excited because Windell’s Hershey Text extension for rendering...
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