We ran a story about a wall-mounted plotter bot this week, Mural. It’s a simple, but very well implemented, take on a theme that we’ve seen over and over again in various forms. Two lines, or ...

Other design choices have worked for the plotter, but don’t look like they will work well for the eventual CNC design. As an example, the plotter uses 2020 extrusions and lead screws.

A type of pen plotter that wraps the paper around a drum with a pin feed attachment. The drum turns to produce one direction of the plot, and the pens move to provide the other. The plotter was ...

Electrostatic Plotter This early plotter from CalComp used a dry toner process like a laser printer. LEDs beamed light onto a charged plate and produced monochrome drawings at 400 dpi.

This plotter held one pen and could plot sheets of paper up to 11 inches. In the 1970s, plotters were the only means for reproducing high-resolution images from computers.