Oooh I see map projections. Could the plotter be coded to handle bottles of different contours?
Bottle Plotter
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Re: Bottle Plotter
#22There is existing hardware for this https://www.foxalien.com/en-de/products/foxalien-laser-rotar...
Good for laser engravers, but rotating a bottle painted with gold felt tip marker will make some mess on bottle and rollers. Some markers will have too much drag and bottle will not rotate leading to lost steps.
Re: Bottle Plotter
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Time, I would like to polish all the stuff a do it properly, but have not time for that. Also there are still some things TBD.
Open source happens sometimes because people are willing to just git push things that are half finished or even garbage. You should not feel bad about doing it!
Until all the requests for help start coming in..
Re: Bottle Plotter
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Open source happens sometimes because people are willing to just git push things that are half finished or even garbage. You should not feel bad about doing it!
Until all the requests for help start coming in..
In my experience you have to be very successful to get anyone to pay attention at all.
Re: Bottle Plotter
#25Oooh I see map projections. Could the plotter be coded to handle bottles of different contours?
I could easily imagine a CMM-style contact probe to scan-in arbitrary shaped bottles, then allow the user to experiment with different projections in software before committing to the final plot.
Such capability is pretty common in the CNC world to account for the flatness (or lack thereof) of a work piece.
Re: Bottle Plotter
#26The end result is much cooler looking than I was expecting, and will be even more so with multiple colors. For people who want labels for homemade bottled products, and who don’t want to make or buy a plotter, milk labels are pretty great. You print on plain paper (important: with a laser printer), cut to shape, dip in a shallow pan of milk, apply the paper to the bottle and ease out any wrinkles, then press gently o…
I have been in the hell of labels for bottles/jars for a few years now. Never needing enough to send off for professional printing with their minimum order sizes, but more than enough that I've tried several label vendors and purchased laser printed dedicated for purpose. For my needs, none have proven worthy of anything more than "bring to a friend's house" or taking some pictures to look like you're doing something…
I would suggest looking in to a manual pad printer.