Mandala Designer project
This project is carried out as part of the Complex Embedded Systems Lab Training (Sommersemester 2017/2018). It consists of building a Mini CNC Plotter using Arduino. The final machine can draw basic shapes, texts and even complex figures as long as the input is G-Code.
Hardware requirement :
- Two old DVD/CD drives
- A servo motor
- A motor shield L293D
- Arduino Uno board
- Cables
- USB 2.0 cable to connect Arduino to PC
- Screws and nuts
- Power supply (see Ardafruit tutorial on powering motor shield)
Software requirement :
- Arduino IDE
- Processing IDE
- Inkscape (optional)
- GCTRL processing program from Damellis. It is used to send G-Code data to Arduino
For more details refer to the wiki!