How I built a Pen Plotter

Please refer to the relevant sections below:

• Assembly Walkthrough
• Hurdles
• What I did & what I learnt

Video Demo

Here’s how the machine looks when writing a simple G-Code file containing “abc 123 ABC”.

Build Timelapse

Here’s a timelapse stitched together to cover almost the entire assembly process. I ended up not recording the parts where I had to troubleshoot, simply because I was trying to figure out what was going wrong.

Please find the video here.