For my CNC Robotics class, I was tasked with making a Pen Plotter that could draw any g-code that I sent to it. It drew the designs with a dry erase marker. There were two parts to this assignment: use Fusion 360 to transfer designs already made online to g-code and write my own g-code from scratch.

I first built the pen plotter from the professor's instructions. It was a mix of acrylic pieces, screws, belts, Arduino parts, 3D printed pieces, and nuts. Once I built it, I moved onto the functionality portion. The first part of the assignment was to use Fusion 360 to transfer already made designs from the internet into g-code. I started with an easy circle and moved my way up to a bowl of ramen. I used the Universal Gcode Platform software (UGS) to make the Pen Plotter work. For the second part of the assignment, I made shapes with  g-code I had written from scratch. I wrote the g-code using the Vision Studio Code software. I made a line, rectangle (both with sharp and rounded edges), a star, and mountains.