With a used printer and a handful of inexpensive parts you can make your own old school plotter. I remember when plotters were all the rage, if you had a high end one it could even handle multiple colored pens and change them automatically. If you are interested in creating some technology of the past the Junk Plus Arduino blog demonstrates how to make your own.
” Junk (the hardware):
- Olde Epson printer: frame, two stepper motors, motor driver circuitry
- CD player: The laser head moving mechanism
- Desktop compy PSU as a 5V power supply
- One H-bridge – SN754410NEÂ
- Some resistors
- Bits of wire and a small breadboard
- Arduino uno, computer and pen”