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1. Awesome Plotters
Hardware / Plotters
- NextDraw - The Bantam Tools successor to the popular AxiDraw pen plotter.
Hardware / Pens
- JetPens - The Best White Ink Pens - A comprehensive review of many white ink pens, with pictures of their coverage characteristics.
Software / Vector Creation
- ThreadPlotter (⭐137) - "A toolkit for the design and fabrication of delicate punch needle embroidery using X-Y plotters".
Software / Fonts
- FifteenTwenty: Commodore 1520 plotter font (⭐17) - Blog post about the creation of this font from the original ROM.
Inspiration, Instruction, and Research / Fonts
- Sweet-P Six Shooter SP-600 Plotter Demonstration - A recording of the Sweet-P SP-600 running its demo plot.
- Bottle Plotter - Blog post about building a cylindrical pen plotter for drawing on wine bottles.
- Buildlog.net Atari 1020 Plotter Retrofit - Blog post and video about converting an Atari 1020 plotter to use a ESP32-based GRBL controller.
- Texas Instruments HX-1000 Plotter Photos - Photo gallery of the plotter's exterior, interior, and packaging.
- Making cheap HP plotter pens - Blog post mainly about using vinyl cutter parts as pen holders.
- Marcel Schwittlick and The Long Run - Interview with Marcel, and lots of photos and videos of his work and workspace.
- Lars Wander and Mixing Paint With Code - Interview with Lars Wander, plus art and videos.
- Flatulence, Crystals, and Happy Little Accidents by Nick Fitzgerald (RustConf 2019) - A RustConf talk with very little Rust, more about the creative process of generative art and pen plotters.
- Recreating Retro Plotter Art, by Sher Minn (Plotter People #1) - Conference talk with lots of great computer and plotter history.
- 20+ Questions About My Plotter Painting Practice - Q&A blog post with lots of details about more painterly plotting.
- 300 Days with Plotters - Blog post by Licia He about a successful 100 day plotting challenge.
- Vintage Aritma 0507 Plotter drawing Sierpinski triangles in one stroke - Aritma Minigraf 0507 video.
- https://jiristepanovsky.cz/project.php?p=13plotter - Blog post on the Aritma Minigraf 0507 plotter from Czechoslovakia.
- Drawing an Etch-Mask Directly onto a PCB using a Vintage Plotter - The video description has some interesting details about this plotter.
- OrCAD 386 and a plotter Colorgraf Aritma 512 - Article about using a Colorgraf 512 plotter with OrCAD 386 for making printed circuit boards.
- Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s - Good art history lesson with lots of plotter-relevant artists.
- Coding My Handwriting - Great exploration of creating handwriting with p5.js and some custom tools.
Manuals, Ephemera, Papers, and Patents / Manuals
- Aritma Colorgraf 512 - Website with scanned schematics and manual.
- Atari 1020 Color Printer Owner's Guide (1982) - A higher-quality scan is also available as a PDF on buildlog.net
- Esterline Angus Spartan X-Y Recorder Instruction Manual (1980) - Revs 1080, 1178, 0480.
- SEGA SP-400 Operation Manual - This doesn't present as a flippable book on the archive, but the original page scans are still available for download.
- (Unknown Brand) LP 2002 Photo Plotter Attachment Operating Manual (German) - Also see Martin Bircher's thread with pictures of this device.
Manuals, Ephemera, Papers, and Patents / Ephemera
- Sweet-P Plotter Brochure and Price List - Four-page color marketing brochure with attached suggested retail price list.
- IEEE Electronic Systems News Autumn (1985) - Review of the three-color Penman robotic plotter.
- Apple II Business Graphics Film (1982) - There's a Strobe Model 100 Graphics Plotter drawing bar charts at 4:57.
- Elektor Magazine Selbstbauplotter MONDRIAN II (1990) (German) - Also see a model of this plotter on GrabCAD.
Manuals, Ephemera, Papers, and Patents / Papers
Courses / Patents
- Painting with Plotters - A work-in-progress course by Licia He, to be released September 2024.
2. Awesome Lowcode
Visual programming
- TrackVia - Cloud-based work management platform for enterprise.
3. Awesome Newsletters
Technology in General / Svelte
- Weekly Engineering Newsletter. Every Sunday, delivering a digest of the week's most fascinating finds in the tech world.
4. Awesome Selfhosted
Software / Communication - Social Networks and Forums
- Hatsu - Bridge that interacts with Fediverse on behalf of your static site. (Source Code (⭐204))
AGPL-3.0Docker/Rust
5. Awesome Svelte
UI Libraries
- SVAR Core for Svelte (⭐179) - A collection of 20+ Svelte UI components for building fast-performing, interactive and responsive web apps.
6. Awesome Readme
Examples
- eylon-44/Buzz-OS (⭐16) - Project logo. Colorful emojis. GIFs for project demo, examples, and instructions. Fast and simple copy-paste instructions for installation and usage. Pretty table of contents. A quick overview of project's main features.
7. Awesome Neovim
Startup / Diagnostics
- mong8se/actually.nvim (⭐60) - Load the file you actually meant to load.
Utility / Diagnostics
- mong8se/buffish.nvim (⭐4) - A buffer switcher in the spirit of dirvish or vinegar.
8. Awesome Langchain
Other LLM Frameworks / Videos Playlists
- Claude Engineer (⭐11k): Claude Engineer is an interactive command-line interface (CLI) that leverages the power of Anthropic's Claude-3.5-Sonnet model to assist with software development tasks.
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