This page is meant to be a constantly updated list of all of the variations on vertical “v-plotter” style robots I’ve found. This list was last updated on 7/30/2014.
- Polargraph by Sandy Noble
- PlotterBot parts on Thingiverse, pen holder on Thingiverse
- Der Kritzler by Alex Weber
- Printed Polargraph by John Abella
- John’s printed Polargraph Flickr set
- John designed a printable gondola and ball-chain-pulley on Thingiverse
- John used Kit Kraft for ball-chain, Adafruit for steppers and the motor shield ((Instructions for Adafruit motor shield assembly)), with a Freeduino
- Printed Krizlerbot Polargraph gondola by Lanthan (on Thingiverse)
- Ytai Ben-Tsvi’s Android/IOIO/OpenCV-based interactive plotter – on HackADay.com, at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013
- Anna Kaziunas France’s drawbot based on Dan Royer’s Makelangelo
- Mambohead aka Darcy Whyte’s drawing robot Mr. Drew Darcy is incredibly prolific and has shared much of his work on his site
- KeerBot by Gilad (the software looks to be from Dan Royer)
- “Ugly Cousin” DrawBot by John Cliff, picture 1, picture 2
- Dealywhopper’s Dr. Scratchy
- GarabatoBOT (DoodleBOT) on Thingiverse, YouTube, blog
- Hektor
- Thing-a-day, Day 19: Whiteboard Bot by Matt Mets
- An awesome comment from LadyAda with a photo of her own whiteboard bot!
- Viktor by Jürg Lehni
- Drawing machine by Harvey Moon (under Multimedia Works) also, here
- Drawbot by AS220 Labs
- Muralizer by Josh Myer
- Drawbot tutorial on Make Magazine by Shawn Wallace
- Make It Last Newsletter
- Blog posts about the contest ((The Make Magazine contest ended 3/3/2011))
- James Provost’s InternBot
- Bill Rasmussen’s 2e5.com V-plotter mathematical theory
- SADbot by Dustyn Roberts
- Tristan Perich Machine Drawing
- Matthew Venn’s polargraph energy monitoring
- Doug Kanter’s thoughts on drawing robot tech
- Mark Stephenson’s mention of drawing robot art at ArtEngine ModLab (mention of Mambohead’s drawbot)
- Sailindaze’s posts about his drawing robot, an update on said robot, and his trip to the Maker Faire Detroit
- FlickrHiveMind.net collection of photos tagged with “drawbot”
- Bill French’s drawing robot at FUBAR labs
- This RasterWeb Friday Night DrawBot is a rolling robot that draws logo-esque circles
- SmoothOctopus Flickr stream
- Dan Royer’s Drawbot on his blog Marginally Clever with his hard work and source code shared on Github!
- Norwegian Creations’ Drawing Machine
- Facebook Wall Robot on Instructibles
- Drawing Machine by LineKernel
- Polargraph build by Michael Cook at Foobarsoft
- Stuart Childs’ DRBO Polargraph
- Gontarczyk.org
- Matt Ball and Will (?) built Erik the Wall Plotter and shared their software on Github
- Vertical Plotter on Arduino.cc by Pietro Leoni
- DrawBug by Tinkerdays at Arduino.cc and Tinkerdays.com with pictures at Flickr
- Whiteboard Plotter (in Icelandic)
- Another Whiteboard Plotter by Spritetm
- Drawing Robot by Grant Stewart
- Giant Printer by GeekPhysical with a YouTube video and some Flickr photos. Their blog indicates this project was created in 2006 using some code that’s about 10 years old as of 2011. Unfortunately, their code and designs are not open source.
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Jerry Ficke’s whiteboard plotter
- LEGO based v-plotter shown at SIGGRAPH in 1988
- Drawbot@MfK wiki
- Printball by Benjamin Gaulon ((The last one is just a graffiti/painter robot that paints on far off walls by shooting a paintball gun at the surface. It’s really quite awesome.))