Hi! :)

I'm David Vandenbogaerde, or d17e for short. A software engineer and budding artist residing in Amsterdam.

Not so long ago I wanted to plot QR codes on my Axidraw, only to realise it wasn't exactly straight forward. In fact, this is what my first attempt looked like:

First attempt at plotting QR code on Axidraw

Looks cute, but not really a success...

That's when I thought I could solve this problem once and for all.
For everybody.
Forever.

This is what that looks like:

Functional QR Code With Ruler For Scale

And below it is in action at 1.38x the actual speed to fit into a 30 second clip. In real time this took ~39 seconds to plot. As you might be able to tell I pushed the speed settings on the Axidraw towards the maximum for this test. For reference, on my regular speed settings (relatively slow) the same code still only took about ~42 seconds.

The source code for this entire project is on my github.

In case you have some ideas, feedback or just want to say hi, I'd love to hear from you! Please do get in touch and let's have a chat!

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