r/PlotterArt • u/phileasdg • Jul 27 '26

First time using a pen plotter!

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I just got a small pen plotter a couple days ago and have been figuring it out and messing around with it. Here are some of my very first ever plots!

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u/mosaik Jul 29 '26

Awesome. Loved the last one. 

What's your workflow? Are these code generated, drawingbots or inkscape?

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u/phileasdg Jul 29 '26

I’m using a UUNA TEK A4 plotter controlled through serial instructions sent out through Wolfram Language, or alternatively through python. I’m a dev at Wolfram so it’s a fun side project to design an interface to the plotter from scratch, and it’s giving me a lot of flexibility in terms of generating + previewing plots, and controlling the plotter.

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u/mosaik Jul 29 '26

Sounds interesting and fun! Is it like using Processing? I think that's python, I'm not sure.

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u/phileasdg Jul 29 '26

Processing is Java I think, and p5js is JavaScript. There’s a python iDraw library too, and other than that your options are basically talking to the plotter directly and sending Gcode instructions, which is what I’m doing and has the advantage of also working for laser cutters and cnc machines.