Although the extensive utilize of 3D printers has made things like linear bearings as well as leadscrews much more common, you still can’t run down to your regional big-box hardware store as well as get them. However, you can get drawer slides as well as any type of pastime shop can offer you some RC servos. That as well as an Arduino can make a easy as well as simple plotter. just ask [JimRD]. You can likewise view it do its thing in the video below.

Of course, servos aren’t typically what you utilize in a plotter. however the slides convert the rotation of the servo into linear motion. One servo for X as well as one for Y is all you need. one more microservo lifts the pen up as well as down utilizing a hinge you might likewise get from a hardware store.

Is it pretty? No. Does it do amazing artwork? No, again. however it is the type of thing you might most likely throw together from things you occur to have hanging around, particularly if you are about to trash an old desk or cupboard with slides in it.

This would make a fantastic rainy day project. We are suckers for easy plotter jobs even though you might just mate a pen to your 3D printer or CNC machine. Those won’t in shape your whiteboard, though.