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Very nice! I remember going to a university open house in the late 80’s and they had a multi-pen plotter drawing microchip circuits on really big pieces of paper that were not held flat, it rolled it back and forth while the paper dangled on either side of the plotter.

The timeless charm of plotters ! 😍 A great execution once again.

Glad I found your channel. Just got a 3D printer and going crazy with all the mechanical project I can do now. Great idea for the terminating the belt with the wrap around 3d printed block.

Great plotter! I want looking for a new project and I wanted to build a plotter and experiment with stroke techniques. Love the idea of simply using linear rails. I want to design my own plotter, but I will use linear rails for sure! Thanks for the great inspiration.

Incredible inventiveness. Each of your projects is something new in the world of Arduino. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome design! Loved the little things like the clever belt mount and nifty pen clamping mechanism! Feeling inspired! thank you!

The best tutorial of all time! I have been searching and watching the tutorial about this particular machine and I can confidentally say this is the best and understandable!

I did this machine back in 2003 i wrote the control fully with C# and it was via parallel port at that time , and it supported HPGL format for drawing.....time passes and this still my favourite project ever

Fantastic project ! ! I will make it and for next Christmas it will make beautiful card. For the printed part what setting did you use? And would printing with PET instead of PLA help with more rigidity?

I have completed my own Plotter after 4 Weeks and tens of hours today 😎👌 its very, very accurate, worth building and sooo much fun to see, how this DIY Plotter is and was painting my own A3 Scetch of the Chernobyl Power Plant Nr. 4 😂😂 But some things to know, for them, who are building this little monster of Scetches: 1. You have to own a good 3D-Printer, which is perfectly aligned, so the tolerance is low for the pieces to print, or, like me, spend hours on deburring them- but its relatively easy to do with a goood deburring tool 😌 2. The minimum 9 Jumpers for the (cheap China) CNC Shield are not in Stock with it, so if you dont have a Computer Store, order them right with it. 3. If you‘re thinking of building your own, purchase minimum 600cm long Linear Rails! You won‘t regret it! For my own, i „only“ have 550cm ones, and its kind a little though 🙂 4. The most frustrating at all is, get the Endstop-Switches and Homing to work, especially if you got one of these chinese CNC Shields- You have to tinker hours to get them working- really! The switches must be connected differently than shown in the Video: „Y+“ to Spindle Enable „X+“ to X- „Z“ to Y- (my working configuration 🤷🏼‍♂️) 5. Configuration of the grbl-Code is kinda tricky, because it false-triggers the Endstops much times, for me it worked right from the Moment i‘ve -disengaged- the hard and soft Limit switches (believe it or not 😅) and turn on Homing Cycle xD $20=0 $21=0 $22=1 $23=0 6. Order Drag-Chains! You won‘t regret it, looking beautiful! 🤫 7. Don‘t think, GRBL-Plotter is a easy Application: simply the import of pictures can be very time-consuming, because of Windows „Technology“ - 15 minutes of waiting for ending on an ugly-filled sketch is normal- Have „fun“ with it! It does its work, but preoperational vectorisation of the pictures with eg. Inkscape to svg. Format is heavily recommended 😝 8. Automatic Changing of Color Pens is propably possible, but you have to do so many settings, simply for drawing 1 colored picture and then, for drawing a simple Grayscale picture after, seeking for your old settings again, frustrating not to have a good manual - Learning by doing is your only option to have a good result at the End 🤪🤪 Much fun for you guys building this funny thing of Technology! Greetings 😎👌

Amazing project. I love it. Few parts. Thanks for sharing. From Philippines.

My boy is sharing all his knowledge for free again! Thank you so much!

Very cool! A while ago I played with putting a paint brush in the spindle of my CNC and used a dropper bottle to add acrylic paint just ahead of where the brush was moving. The result was quite nice, but it was labour intensive. I wonder now if I could have used paint pens or peristaltic pumps to add paint. Thanks for sharing.

You should make one of those marble sand drawing things next! DIY Sisyphus!!

CNC plotters are pretty hard to get right the first time especially with very low spending capital, I'm impressed with your work and my dream is achieve this kind of accuracy and financial and time freedom to work on these awesome projects

Hello! Very interesting. What do you think if there is a need to build a bigger machine? do you think it is possible just to make the partsand rails bigger/longer? Is it possible to build upon your design for bigger sizes or everything has to be redesigned? Regards

Really impressive build.

Very inspiring project. Thank you for sharing!

Terrific video! I had a quick question, my Z stepper motor isn't responding while running gcode, but if I press the pen up/down button the motor responds. Hoping it's just a setting I missed...Thanks!

Damn now I want to build the pen switching mechanism on my plotter too!

wonderful solder station

Awesome video! I'm going to build one soon. I'm new to CNC/GRBL codes but just wondering about the scenario where we have only one fixed pen attached to z-axis and instead of using a motor to move the pen up/down, can there be a magnetic lever to move the pen 5mm up/down? For example, instead of a pen, what if I attach a blade to cut paper and move the blade by activating/deactivating a magnet? We only need to move the z-axis 5mm and try to remove the extra motor and driver to make the project lighter. Not sure if the GCODE would work with an electronic magnet. Thanks for sharing the project.

Very inspiring project

I remember same concept back into late 90's, done by Hallmark using custom pen plotters that also hold many colors. I will make this too. I loved the result of those machines.

Nice! We had plotters back in '80's at school. Those had only 6 pens but still.

gracias por compartir tu proyecto. llevo mucho tiempo consiguiendo toda la lista. e los stl no viene la parte que se ve en el 6:21 de tu video. me lo puedes compartir por favor, para terminar el plotter. saludos desde la cdmx

Amazing work!

beautiful work, well done!!!

CNC Potter is very good and cool! I can make a CNC plotter myself! 👌🏻👍🏻😁

I love this! Any longer videos of the machine busy at work plotting some nice pictures? :)

Great! Congratulations!

Excellent printer especially for the price

Amazing work dude!

Great, I think I'll try it, but I would certainly add a wheel at the end of the arm so it does not go down with the weight at the end.

Really awesome, thanks for sharing!!

Cool video! You should try Igus linear rails. They are free from lubricant.

Excelent and beatiful work!

Thank you very much for the video! I have a question that can we change plotter head for viny cutting with this machine?

This project inspire me..tq for sharing

Hello! Great job and great tutorial! I have a question: can I use this machine with a drag knife? There is anything to change in hardware/software? Thank you very much.

You are a Genius..Gold bless you

Amazing video I really hope you upload more often I have been following you for 5 years

The most amazing projects, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Excellent project man....I was having a bad day, thinking of projects..you gave a great idea man...you are doing a great job...❤️

This is really cool project

Nice done! 👌

One of my fav channel ❤️❤️❤️

Excellent I will try to make Thanks

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for sharing your genius ideas. :) Is it worth making a version that has support on the other side as well (I suppose extra cost would be the down-side?) and maybe for the pens, I can remember using an old (very old) plotter that had magnets (not strong ones) in the tops of the pens and the holder?

Hello. One stupid question: how to adjust the servo travel endpoints and the direction of the rotation of the servo? No youtube video shows this part of the plotter builds. Is it possible to adjust it with some $ commands?

Estimado... muy lindo proyecto... lo felicito....

Wow, you're so amazing and creative!!!

Aren't the servo and the Z axis microswitch switched up on the schematic? Nevertheless, I love this project :) I've made a similar "floating end" design a year ago, the other end is supported with a normal ball bearing :D

Great project! Thank you for your interesting ideas. One question: Length of linear rails are 350mm or 400mm?

Hello, this is a great design and well explained. Regarding you Y axis pin lifter that is four milimeters lower that the begining of the Y axis ( when the stepper motor is at the end of the Y axis and far from the X rail , so at the end) , did you tried the solution to add an extra wheel at the end of the Y axis that rolling on the table.

awsome project

Amazing . How can I create a GRBL software and what programming language should I learn ? Is it possible to simulate in ROS , gazebo or any other software ? ... thanks for the video .

Not bad. How is the paper held down? In old HP plotters, the hold-down was electrostatic.

hello, this is a great design, I've got a question is there a possibility on arduino uno to replace the A4988 stepper drivers with TMC2209 easily ? I am not so expert on Arduino. As the A4988 are really noisy and TMC2209 really silent.

I might have to try this. thank you for sharing

Great video,thank you for sharing

Hello, is it possible to change the tool of a cnc milling machine if I have a spindle with automatic atc change for grbl-plotter?

Wow!! Amazing!!

That's amazing 🙌

Great project!

Ok. Great vid. I'm obviously missing something though, I'm lost as to where to find the 3D printed elements of the structure. I am in the process of considering the purchase of a home 3D printer, and if that comes to pass I would like to undertake this project. If the 3D (blue) components aren't available to purchase are the plans for home self manufacture available? Like in general what I've seen of your site, as a reitred engineer I spent many years servicing and refurbishing much larger machine tools, and would be happy to build and use smaller and cleaner units at home. Regards Peter

Great! Thank you for sharing. Arturo

You are great brother

Hi, U always has a top notch projects and ideas to share. Thank you

Great project, what rail size to use for work area of A4 sheet (22x30 cm)

Your's every Arduino projects are perfectly great

very interesting and am trying to do something like this. so far i have done my dimenssioning of the 3d printed parts and i wish you help me with your dimensions. i wish to check if i did something good... thanks

I knew it was going to be awesome as it was a long wait for a new video, great job

So many helpful. Thank you.

I would like to ask your opinion, do you think a cnc plotter with controlled pen pressure could be made? So you could draw lines that go to zero. I think it could be done with a linear servo actuator that is force controlled. For example, the Mighty ZAP.

Hello, do you sell those parts? Atleast the 3d printed ones for those who has no 3d printer? Great job btw!

You're a genius. Compliments from Paris.

Myself first BIG FAN OF U R PROJECTS

so funny, i yesterday visited your channel thinking you should have a video up by now. love your videos, always great content. much love.

man this is sooo cooll, love it

Can we modify same setup for creating STRING ART or Thread Art

What would be the best I assume would be a chain-based rolling shop like in CNC's. You would roll all the pen until you get to the selected one in front of the handle, and then grabs it and resumes work 😀 By the way, loved the video and creativity in it!

Отличный плоттер! Отличная идея! Отличная статья! Молодец! 👍

Hi, can u please explain briefly about GPRL application and parameters settings...or else make one separate video it's helpful for making projects!

If anyone decides to go ahead and build this model, be sure to buy the appropriate lengths for the bolts. The bolts listed in his parts list won't suffice since they're shorter than the ones used in the video. You probably want to order bolts that have at least one set greater than 20mm

great job king

Impresive project, thanks for sharing

I hope you can help, I don't understand how you are setting the G53 X0.0Y0.0, after homing. I've built the machine, and all is good. One last thing, I'm also missing parameters 30,31,32 in GRBL plotter, any ideas?

Amazing ! thank you so much 😍😍🧡

Very nice detail. Thanks

I've completed the build for the hardware, electronics, and the GRBL Firmware. I'm trying to setup the GRBL-PLOTTER on a Raspberry Pi 4, but GRBL-PLOTTER has a Windows DotNet 4.0 dependency. Do you have a work around for this?

Please tell me, is there such an opportunity for this device, not to draw the whole drawing at once, but in segments, for example, I drew one line and drove off to the zero point for a couple of seconds, then again drew another line and again drove off for a few seconds, and apply this action for everything drawing, yes it will be much more in terms of the time spent, but the fact itself is such an action possible or not?

U r a genious. Ojalá supiera la cuarta parte de lo que sabes tú.

can i straight replace the rail guides to be longer? like 2000mm?

could you add a paper roll to this machine for automatic longer drawing ? Thank you

I am amazed by seeing your work. I want to make a plotter for my workshop. How do you handle printing jobs in other software like office or other CAD systems?

You dont actually need a servo for the gripper though if you don't need it to change tools right

Hey brother can you tell me how did you make the g code for this machine

Are there any details on the measurments of the assemblies? cant seem to edit it in Solidworks