The Original Egg-Bot Kit

From Evil Mad Scientist Wiki
Revision as of 17:57, 29 September 2010 by Windell (talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search

This section is for future documentation of The Original Egg-Bot kit.

Main details about the Egg-Bot kit:


Getting started with Eggbot: Essential documentation

  • Part I: Assembly guide (to be posted)
  • Part II: Installing software (to be posted)
  • Part III: Aligning objects in the Eggbot (to be posted)
  • Part IV: Making your first plot (to be posted)


Additional basic-level tutorials:

  • Drawing a smiley face, a detailed example, making a simple drawing in Inkscape and formatting it for the Eggbot. (Partially uploaded)


Getting started with Inkscape:


Advanced tips & topics:

  • TSP art, a technique based upon the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) for drawing likenesses of photographic images
  • Improving precision (to be posted)
  • Hacks (to be posted)
  • Methods of creating filled regions (to be posted)
  • Some hints on optimization (to be posted)
  • Tracing images in Inkscape (to be posted)


Egg-Bot support resources: