We are excited to be exhibiting the AxiDraw at the San Francisco International Pen Show this weekend, August 25-27 in Redwood City. We’ll look forward to seeing all of our pen aficionado friends there!
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Fractals with AxiDraw
I wrote a tutorial on generating fractals with L-systems: https://t.co/BiBXgYHw59. Here's my AxiDraw plotting a tree. pic.twitter.com/JG3UkMZORz
— Paul Butler (@paulgb) July 9, 2017
Paul Butler wrote a tutorial on Fractal Generation with L-Systems and posted some example code with the output plotted by AxiDraw.
The tutorial is also available as a Jupyter notebook with runnable code.
AxiDraw on Fabric
povevolving has been sharing great stuff they’ve been doing with their AxiDraw on instagram. I particularly love this plot done directly onto a dress.
Holiday Cards with AxiDraw
Pitch Interactive, a data visualization studio, sent out “Happy Holidata” cards made using the AxiDraw.
This year’s card features a snowflake that uses two data points in its generation: how long we’ve known the recipient and the air quality where we’re sending the card. It is unique to the person we sent it to, and no two snowflakes are alike.
After getting some inspiration from dozens of photos of snowflakes, we brainstormed about the different types of symmetry and shapes that would make our design. We then generated the snowflake with a script that draws a certain number of radial spikes based on how long we’ve known the person we were sending them to. Other parameters for the generation rely on random numbers, ensuring that each generated snowflake was completely unique.
They’ve published the code on github, as well as a set of svg files.
Introducing the AxiDraw V3
This new AxiDraw has been redesigned from the ground up for high performance. It features smooth rolling wheels on custom aluminum extrusions, specially designed for high stiffness and light weight. Its sturdy, rigid construction gives it finer quality output and in most applications allows it to operate at up to twice the speed of the previous AxiDraw, which it replaces.
As with the previous version, AxiDraw is a simple, modern, precise, and versatile pen plotter, capable of writing or drawing on almost any flat surface. It can write with fountain pens, permanent markers, and other writing implements to handle an endless variety of applications. Its unique design features a writing head that extends beyond the body of the machine, making it possible to draw on objects bigger than the machine itself.
AxiDraw V3 is available to order today, and begins shipping next week. See it in action and learn more on the product page.Hilbert Curve Cat
Shy wrote in to tell us about a tool he created to generate Hilbert curves from images for plotting called Image2Hilbert. (Main GitHub project link, here: )
Shy says:
I added a calculation in the interface and this line is approximately 35.881 meters long and it took about 45 minutes to draw.
Thank you, Shy, for sharing this tool! We look forward to seeing what people make with it.
East Bay Mini Maker Faire 2016
We are excited to be demonstrating the AxiDraw at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire on October 23 at the Park Day School in Oakland.
If you can join us, you can use discount code “MakerRockstar” when purchasing tickets online for 15% off.
AxiDraw at Maker Faire New York
We will be demonstrating the AxiDraw at Maker Faire New York this weekend, October 1-2. We’ll be in the Microchip booth in the Maker Pavilion.
Drawing with light and AxiDraw
The folks at myDesignLab made long exposure RGB LED drawings using AxiDraw, even going so far as to make multi layer three dimensional drawings.
Lindsay Wilson used a laser in a similar manner, first with long exposure photos, then with a UV laser and phosphorescent vinyl and then with a UV laser and cyanotype paper. The cyano print shown above is an example of his experiments drawing Lorentz attractor patterns.
AxiDraw Experiments by Hansje van Halem
Hansje van Halem posted this video of clips of AxiDraw plotting a variety of designs using different types of pens and drawing media.
