Plotters were a thing before we had nice laser and inkjet printers. But now they’re coming back like 80s music (lol), this time at the intersection of code and art. Compared to printers, which are way faster, plotters are nice because they produce results that look hand-drawn. And it’s fun to watch them draw! I’ve now purchased two modern hobbyist plotters, first the Makeblock XY Plotter and more recently the AxiDraw v3. I used each purchase as an opportunity to hack up some code for controlling...