Change the "Delay after pen raising" (Eggbot control, the Timing tab) to a higher value. Ideally the pen down position should be just enough for the pen to hit and write on the egg in every position.Ĭ. This will make it so the servo doesn't need to move it up as far which makes it faster. There are a couple of ways to fix this:Ī. Make sure you're lifting the pen up high enough (in the Eggbot control dialog, the Setup tab, the "Pen up position"ī. Make the "Pen down position" higher. When I first set up my Eggbot it would draw weird lines because the motor was moving as it was picking up the pen. Here are some gotchas I've run into and what I did about them:ġ. Click on the Plot tab in the Eggbot control and click apply, the eggbot will start drawing. In the setup tab click apply to raise the pen arm. Manually lift up the pen and move the pen arm over to the left and make sure it's also touches the egg there.ĩ. If it's not you may need to push the pen lower in the arm, lower the arm using the screw, or adjust the "pen down position" in the dialog. Move the pen far the the right, in the Setup tab of the Eggbot control click apply to drop the pen. Now verify it's still not touching when you move the pen arm from side to side.Ĩ.
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After you change the number click apply once, wait until the pen lowers, then click apply again. If it is touching you can adjust the "Pen up position" in the Setup tab of the Eggbot control. It should be somewhere between 1/8" and 1/16" over the egg.ħ. Move the pen arm from side to side to make sure it's not touching the egg when the pen arm is up. Then pen should over the center of the egg.
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Lift the Pen arm - in the Egg-bt control click the Setup tab, make sure "Toggle pen up/down" is selected and click apply, wait for motors to move, then click apply again (the first apply will set the pen at the "down" position, the second apply will move it up).Ħ. Open the Egg-bot control in Inkscape (Extensions -> Eggbot -> Eggbot Control)ĥ. Open your drawing in Inkscape (I'd start with something from the EB_Example_Set )Ĥ.
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Put an egg (or whatever you're going to draw on in the Egg-bot).ģ. Connect your Egg-bot to power and to your computer via USBĢ. After that you can follow these directions for your first plot, or if you want to get something going more quickly this is probably all you really need to do (then you can read the longer directions while your first egg is drawing):ġ.
#HOW TO USE INKSCAPE FOR EGGBOT SOFTWARE#
Download the software for your platform following these directions from the Egg-bot site. Put the Egg-bot together following these directions.