3 ms·
Cricuts (and similar cutters, and multi-mode tools like the Xtool M1 and Bambu Lab H2D) have pen attachments
by bdcravens 1y ago
Cricuts (and similar cutters, and multi-mode tools like the Xtool M1 and Bambu Lab H2D) have pen attachments
- exasperaited 1y agoYes. But no geek should be getting a Cricut when the Silhouette machines exist and are not so locked down and cloud encumbered. ETA: I guess a true maths geek nerd artist would probably want something more modular and larger anyway, but the Silhouette machines are varied, interesting, support a pretty well documented protocol (GPGL, a variant of/alternative to HPGL I think) and are supported in Inkscape and Python.
- mankyd 1y agoSeconded. My Silhouette is great. I even emailed them and received a copy of the GPGL docs one time. It wasn't full on support, but they were willing to give me a start. The first thing I programmed was having it draw a hilbert curve and it worked great!
- exasperaited 1y agoOoh, did you do a blog article about it perhaps? I think I read it, if so.
- mankyd 1y agoIt's 14 years old at this point, but here you go: https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-courtesy-of-graphtec/ https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-cour...
- exasperaited 1y agoYep that’s the one. Thank you for it. :-)