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I worked somewhere where documents were printed, then signed by one of these https://axidraw.com/ https://axidraw.com/ using the client's signature (with their
by dkarp 6y ago
I worked somewhere where documents were printed, then signed by one of these https://axidraw.com/ https://axidraw.com/ using the client's signature (with their permission) to be posted to a pension provider who required wet signatures.
- encom 6y agoComic Sans in their website title. That's a bold move.
- 72deluxe 6y agoVery interesting machine, thanks! I wonder if it does an analysis on input to determine where the start/end marks on a stroke with a fountain pen are.
- dkarp 6y agothe drawing software is actually pretty simple and draws "plots", with each stroke being a single plot and the pen lifting after. What that means is you cannot scan a signature and reproduce it, because the machine won't know where to start and where to lift the pen. We used something like documented here: https://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Capturing_Handwriting#Capturing_a_signature_with_jSignature https://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Capturing_Handwriting#Capt... This produces SVGs which have those individual strokes that the machine can reproduce.
- 72deluxe 6y agojSignature looks interesting. I wrote something like that for capturing signatures on Android years ago, where you work out each plot until the user lifts their finger. I wonder if you could recreate signatures by examining the depth of the ink where the person lifts their pen, since that typically has the largest deposit of ink at that point, particularly with a fountain pen.
- jtbayly 6y agoI can't stop watching that video. If I had one of those machines, I'd never get anymore work done.
- Aeolun 6y agoThat’s actually surprisingly cheap. If I had more space I might be tempted to get one.
- cptskippy 6y agoYou can get a laser engraver or 3d printer for half the cost of those devices that's much more versatile. These are based on the EBB board which uses a custom command set rather than the more common GCode command set which is the basis for most CNC machines. If you're interested in CNC I'd recommend going with something that is based on GCode as it's much more transferable. GCode is used in everything from $100 PCB engravers up to multi-million dollar HAAS milling machines.
- Aeolun 6y agoI appreciate the advice, but I doubt the laser engraver or 3D printer are going to hold a pen, so it wouldn’t really do what I wanted (of course they’re great to have in their own right).
- cptskippy 6y agoThere are countless examples on the internet of people adding laser engraver modules and pens to their 3d Printers. They're designed to be modified, they use an open source control language utilized by industry, unlike that pen device using a proprietary language. The $150 laser engravers from Eleksmaker for example have an unused servo pinout on their control boards specifically for adding an accessory like an actuator for a pen. It would be trivially simple to swap out the laser module, which is held in by thumb screws, and replace it with a pen.