Arduino Based Mini CNC Plotter

CNC plotter machine is basically a 2.5 axis CNC machine, it have two stepper motor on both X & Y axis and a servo motor at Z axis. A pen is connected on Y-axis and Z-axis is used to make pun up & down. As name suggest plotter machine obvious draw or plotting a drawing as per given instruction. To give instruction to machine what to draw a special type of code called G-code is required. Image will be converted to G-code with the help of special type of software. afterwards this G-code sends to controller and controller commands motors how to move. As result machine will draw image on paper.

Software/Application Used

*Arduino IDE v1.6.3 - Used for programming the Arduino

*Processing v3.3 - Used to open GCTRL.pde file based on Java

*Inkscape v0.48.5 - Used to convert vector graphics to GCODE instruction files

Code AND Library

*CNC code for Arduino

*GCTRL Processing code

*AFMotor Library for Arduino

*Makerboat GCODE Inkscape Extension