The Original Egg-Bot Kit
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This section is for (not yet complete) documentation of The Original Egg-Bot kit.
Main details about the Egg-Bot kit:
- Announcement article at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
- Kit page at evilmadscience.com
- egg-bot.com, the official site, featuring the Eggbot FAQ.
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.
Getting started with Inkscape:
- Inkscape Documentation, at Inkscape.org, with links to official and unofficial tutorials and manuals
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)
- Blowing Eggs
- Pen choices
- Help wanted (to be posted)
Egg-Bot support resources:
- Eggbot-user Mailing list (Please sign up!)
- Eggbot Forum at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
- EBB page, about the EiBotBoard that powers the Eggbot
- Google Code Project, EggBotCode, where Eggbot software is hosted
- Software Issues List @ EggBotCode, if you have a bug to report
