NICO MONTEROSSO

A3+ Drawing Machine 
Cartesian Plotter

I designed this 'Drawing Machine'/ Cartesian Plotter as DIY Opensource equivalent to the AxiDraw from Evil Mad Scientist. It uses their EBB Driver Board to control the steppers and the pen lift servo for simplicity - it's great for a first time user of plotters, like me and I find it incredibly user friendly when used with Inkscape.

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My files to 3D print your own version are available on Thingiverse and Prusa's Printables.com.

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To keep the servo wire out of the way, I used a piece wire (actually taken from an RC plane push rod). One end is trapped between the servo screw and 3D print and the other end has the servo wire taped to it, to keep it suspended in the air.