u/Oli_Vier_0x3b29

5 years ago, I started the project Dot-Bot with u/s3lect. It is a large scale wall plotter project that draws with actual spray cans. Last weekend, we showed it off for the very first time outside and in front of a live crowd at the annual maker fair in Hannover Germany. Here is one of the murals we spray painted over the course of the event. Fortunately, the Dot-Bot proved to be extremely resilient. During the 3 days it was installed on the wall, it got torched by the sun and soaked from the rain multiple times. However, it never let us down. We definitely had a blast talking to a ton of fellow makers and interested visitors!

For years now, I am working iteratively on my wall plotter project called Dot-Bot. During the first full scale tests, we ran into issues with the forces being too high on the side motors when the gondola moves in the upper middle portion of the canvas. This led to wavy lines since the GT2 belts started to oscillate like guitar stings under high loads. With this third center station, we are able to decrease the force on the side motors dramatically improving quality noticeably where it matters the most, in the center of the wall.

I am working on a 100% custom wall plotter project that can carry regular 400ml cans of spraypaint, and this is the next step in the journey to get it perfected and in the hands of an artist to have fun with it :-) The image comes from an open source tool developed by a friend of mine and can be tested out here https://select.github.io/spiralux/ code can be found here https://github.com/select/spiralux