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Andy Piper<p>Making <a href="https://macaw.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> art at High Tide Festival in Twickenham, UK - including the full debut of Scribbletron, my generative postcard machine <a href="https://macaw.social/tags/plotterart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plotterart</span></a> <a href="https://macaw.social/tags/maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maker</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://metapixl.com/forgeandcraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>forgeandcraft</span></a></span></p>
tiago<p>Machine drawing, seeded from a photograph and generative guided.</p><p>Chinese ink on paper (A3), 2025. <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <a href="https://genart.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
tiago<p>Adapters,Pens and Plotters… a long story <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <br><a href="https://ifigeneiantakouri.wordpress.com/2024/10/03/adapterspens-and-plotters-a-long-story/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ifigeneiantakouri.wordpress.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/10/03/adapterspens-and-plotters-a-long-story/</span></a></p>
tiago<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@beardicus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>beardicus</span></a></span> found your OpenSCAD model after making my one eheh thanks for sharing, it's a great resource! <a href="https://genart.social/tags/3dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3dprinting</span></a> <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.printables.com/model/156722-plotter-pen" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">printables.com/model/156722-pl</span><span class="invisible">otter-pen</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.printables.com/model/1362574-rolandhp-bic-pen-adapter" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">printables.com/model/1362574-r</span><span class="invisible">olandhp-bic-pen-adapter</span></a></p>
tiago<p>This is a hack for using BIC ballpoints pens on vintage pen plotters. Note that this model is highly experimental, more experimentation is need (an <a href="https://genart.social/tags/OpenSCAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSCAD</span></a> file is available). <a href="https://genart.social/tags/3dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3dprinting</span></a> <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a><br><a href="https://www.printables.com/model/1362574-rolandhp-bic-pen-adapter" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">printables.com/model/1362574-r</span><span class="invisible">olandhp-bic-pen-adapter</span></a></p>
tiago<p>Portrait of Frida Kahlo.</p><p>Machine drawing, seeded from a photograph and generative guided.</p><p>Chinese ink on paper (A3), 2025. <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <a href="https://genart.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
tiago<p>The ink is rather old, a few decades, although I like the final greenish general tone (should be black).</p><p>And still struggling to get faster speeds on the machine.</p><p>Ink on A3 paper.</p><p><a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a></p>
tiago<p>Found your code <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://notwork.in/@notmycommit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>notmycommit</span></a></span> :D</p><p>My Roland GRX-400 is very slow using Chiplotle, going to test your code for speeding it up, I hope <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blog.dbalan.in/blog/2019/02/23/resurracting-an-hp-7440a-plotter/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.dbalan.in/blog/2019/02/23</span><span class="invisible">/resurracting-an-hp-7440a-plotter/index.html</span></a></p>
paulrickards<p>The original circular HP pen plotter organizer boxes have foam dividers for the pens. Now the foam is turning to goo. I created a new insert to replace the foam and hold 40 pen plotter pens. Should fit the short or tall circular pen box.</p><p><a href="https://www.printables.com/model/1359611-hp-circular-plotter-pen-organizer-divider" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">printables.com/model/1359611-h</span><span class="invisible">p-circular-plotter-pen-organizer-divider</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PenPlotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenPlotter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3DPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3DPrinting</span></a></p>
Chris Lynas<p>I've been trying to get this style of plotter image to work since before 2012: representing brightness with isolines of a function with higher gradients where the image should be darker so the lines are closer</p><p>After getting something close but not very good a couple of months ago in the last two days I saw a post on Reddit with a new technique to try (fast marching method) and yesterday I got a process working in Python. Over 13 years and it finally took a day</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/penplotterart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotterart</span></a></p>
Rupert Brooks<p>Maps look surprisingly good in silver! h/t to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@doersino" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>doersino</span></a></span> for his osm2svg tool <a href="https://ghpages.noahdoersing.com/osm2svg4art/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ghpages.noahdoersing.com/osm2s</span><span class="invisible">vg4art/</span></a> and thanks to Dirt Alley Design for organizing the plot party on Instagram.</p><p><a href="https://genart.social/tags/plotterart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plotterart</span></a>,<a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <a href="https://genart.social/tags/mapart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapart</span></a></p>
merlin / alex glow<p>Trying to do my first-ever <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PlotParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlotParty</span></a> ! Today's theme is SILVER, and my piece is partway there, but there's some new workflow stuff I'm figuring out.</p><p>So, here are a couple of my previous silver plots to start with :D</p><p>Learn more about PlotParty here: <a href="https://penplotterartwork.com/plotparty" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">penplotterartwork.com/plotpart</span><span class="invisible">y</span></a></p><p>// <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AxiDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AxiDraw</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PenPlotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenPlotter</span></a></p>
Paul<p>I finally looked into getting some replacement pinch rollers printed for my <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/penPlotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penPlotter</span></a>, but shapeways seems to force a minimum price, and the shipping is laughably expensive. Anyone have a better reco for a TPE or TPU <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/3Dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3Dprinting</span></a> service?</p>
Tilda Moose, citizen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://okla.social/@johnmoyer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>johnmoyer</span></a></span> <br>Hey John :) <br>I loved discovering <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PenPlotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenPlotter</span></a> art collections recently, and how much art and ingenuity goes into it. Seeing one set up by a lady at <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DOESliverpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOESliverpool</span></a> in recent years and buying her art, got me thinking creatively around this medium. I'm especially looking forward to writing code that generates nice maths-rich work.<br>Do you have any art yourself?<br>Cheers</p>
Tilda Moose, citizen<p>Hallo <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PenPlotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenPlotter</span></a> community. I'm aiming to scratch together, out of junk &amp; spares if necessary, an affordable A3 or larger XY pen plotter, that I can feed jobs to from my imagination. </p><p>Not scared of electronics or code, just don't want to reinvent too many wheels where avoidable.</p><p>While I read all I can about this format of drawing robot, any recommendations to get started would be very welcome.</p>
tiago<p>Machine drawing.<br>Enamel on coffee stained paper (A4). <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <a href="https://genart.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
tiago<p>Machine drawing and the machine. <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <a href="https://genart.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
tiago<p>Kentridge inspired penplotter drawings. <br>Enamel on encyclopedia paper. <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <a href="https://genart.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
tiago<p>'reflections'</p><p>Enamel on A4 paper. <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a> <a href="https://genart.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
tiago<p>'reflections'</p><p>Enamel on A4 paper. <a href="https://genart.social/tags/penplotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penplotter</span></a></p>
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