{"id":10127,"date":"2014-06-24T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T09:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2014-06-24T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T09:14:29","slug":"building-a-vertical-plotter-with-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10127","title":{"rendered":"Building a vertical plotter with the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wiki.gocupi.googlecode.com\/git\/IMG_20121104_220255.jpg?resize=560%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Green has created a Polargraph. It&#8217;s a vertical old-fashioned plotter that uses a program written in &#8216;Go&#8217; on the Raspberry Pi to send commands to an Arduino which then controls two stepper motors connected to thread to move the pen that draws the picture. 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