However, you can get drawer slides and any hobby shop can sell you some RC servos. That and an Arduino can make a simple and easy plotter. Just ask [JimRD]. You can also watch it do its thing in ...

I build robots that move, blink, and sometimes even creep you out. From animatronics to 3D printing experiments, I fuse ...

It’s a capable plotter, able to nicely reproduce ... the ballpoint to draw a nice dark line, with a servo used as a pen retract mechanism. An Arduino Uno with a stepper driver shield is then ...