Of course, you can always outsource some of the work – and that’s precisely what [Daniele Tartaglia] did with this pen plotter build (Youtube link, embedded below). It’s a capable plotter ...

But some 3D printed pulleys and a very simple-looking core XY arrangement looks like this could be a pretty quick build. You might ... why you wouldn’t just mount a pen on it and call it a ...

A type of pen plotter that wraps the paper around a drum with a pin feed attachment. The drum turns to produce one direction of the plot, and the pens move to provide the other. The plotter was ...