Some years ago we wrote a neat little Inkscape extension called Hershey Text. Hershey text could take a little bit of text that you would type and render it into stroke fonts, also known as engraving fonts. We are very...

We’re pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the AxiDraw software, 2.5. which includes a number of frequently-requested features that we’ve been working on over the last year. An expanded user guide Perhaps foremost, we have updated...

Sash Zats is a designer and generative artist working with AxiDraw. You can find him on instagram and twitter. One of the things about Sash’s work that I enjoy is his choices of materials. He often uses bold papers and...

Not long ago, I posted about roasting coffee. As a follow up, I’d like to share about the various coffee tools we use. I talked about some of these tools when I was a guest on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools...

It has been reported that Maker Media is shutting down and that Maker Faire is at its end. Evil Mad Scientist has its roots in Maker Faire, and has been presenting there from the very beginning, so it seems fitting...

June 3 is National Egg Day so we’re having a sale on EggBot Pro. Save 20% this week with checkout coupon code EGGDAY. Happy Egg Day!

For the last year and a half, we’ve been volunteering with the Fremont Peak Observatory Association (FPOA). It is located in Fremont Peak State Park, just above the mission town of San Juan Bautista, which is where Hitchcock’s Vertigo was...

During our Memorial Day sale, use checkout coupon code MEMORIAL to save 10% storewide. Save on popular items like the AxiDraw V3/A3, on soldering kits, the EggBot Pro, and everything else too! Sale runs today through Saturday June 1.

Unraveling the JPEG When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment The Rube Goldberg of Skateboarding: Matt Tomasello (YouTube, via Rusty’s Electric Dreams) Gareth’s Tips, Tools & Shop Tales a newsletter from Gareth Branwyn Project Phaedra is digitizing and...

Mike from Hackaday came to visit our Uncovering the Silicon project at Maker Faire and got a great video explanation of our project with Windell. He also wrote it up for Hackaday.

At the 2018 Bay Area Maker Faire, our project Uncovering the Silicon showed off a number of simple and complex integrated circuits (with rather large feature size) under the microscope. We had a great time helping visitors look at the...

There is a lively community of plotter enthusiasts in the drawingbots discord channel. One of those is Sam Norton, who goes by hurtle there. Sam has been using the AxiDraw to paint with acrylics using WaterColorBot software. a useful, but...

When we first started roasting coffee, we used the air popcorn popper method. We learned about it from Sweet Maria’s, which in addition to selling green coffee beans, has a wealth of resources for home coffee roasters. We gradually refined...

Bleeptrack is a generative artist who works in a variety of media, but we are of course particularly fond of her plotter work with AxiDraw. We were privileged to see her work displayed at the Plotter People meetup in San...

One of the places we love to see the AxiDraw is in educational settings. It can be used as an introductory tool for digital fabrication, it can be used for learning to code, and it can be used for exploring...

Alexandre wrote in to share how Guna is using the AxiDraw for making their collection of vibrantly decorated bicycle bells. The top part of the bells is screwed on a purposely made acrylic fixture. I have some risers so that...

Our friend Fran posted this great example in the Eggers EggBot Facebook group of one of the things the EggBot excels at: placing a design evenly around any size of egg. This time a medium sizes rhea egg with three...

Arjan van der Meij recently got an AxiDraw and has been exploring binary and ternary numbers as a plotting subject. It has been fascinating to watch his iterations on twitter and instagram. One of his earliest posts represented eight bit...

The curious case of Public Sans A mariachi cover of A-ha’s “Take on Me” (YouTube via Laughing Squid) Pea knives exist (via Rusty’s Electric Dreams) A video about HP’s first computer, the 2116A (YouTube) How “yo-yo” de-spin works for spacecraft...

Jiří Zemánek (who has also made stroboscopic ornaments and eggs) shared this video of his clock made from an egg covered in photochromic paint and a violet laser in the pen holder of an EggBot.

Donald Bell of Maker Update was recently on the Cool Tools podcasts, and gave the WaterColorBot a very nice shoutout. He also mentioned Turtle Toy, which is a tool for creating your own generative art using a minimalistic Turtle graphics...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Names Dress (@namesdress) on Apr 12, 2019 at 4:07pm PDT The Names Dress is a compostable 3D printed conceptual art piece celebrating women in STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art and Math)...

Sandra wrote up her adventures with the EggBot on her blog in German. She ended up with some beautiful eggs at the end! Thanks for sharing your experiences, Sandra!

Thank you to Rebecca Zachau for this picture of Game of Thrones style dragon eggs made with the EggBot! They turned out beautifully.

We had so much fun introducing visitors to what is inside of integrated circuits last year at Maker Faire that we’re going to do it again! For Bay Area Maker Faire 2019 we are excited to be again joining forces...