New Machine Design Advice

[FatFreddie]

That's great - Thanks for the link and information - Lots of info to digest! I would like my machine to be fast ,and by fast i mean be able to draw quicker than a person would do, but not anything crazy. Maybe something Arduino based would still fit the bill?

I think it should be fine for that - if you're using a marker pen, that will probably set the upper speed limit.

A delta machine for A3 will be fairly large but it will also be quite impressive :-)

[Neale]

I know that it's not entirely relevant, but just for fun: robotic painting machine

[cncJim]

Ha that's a clever idea - I would be interested to see the result if they isolated the machine noise from the the processing.

So after thinking about it, the delta type robot may be on the back burner. I think the resulting machine will be just too big and I cant see how it would make so the machine does not obstruct the view of the resulting image.

The robot arm idea has legs though!

Something like this....

[EddyCurrent]

Don't forget pen up/down. Also what about an auto tool changer for different coloured pens ? (once I get carried away I don't know when to stop )