Getting an old KNK zing machine to work from custom software
Published by Jordan Skole on 12/22/2021
Collection of resources
Promising Node libraries:
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@beardicus/line-us
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@forresto/svg-to-cnc
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/saxi
- https://github.com/aubergene/canvas-polyline
- https://github.com/aubergene/canvas-hpgl
Other libraries in other languages or binaries:
- https://vpype.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- http://pldaniels.com/hpgl-distiller/
- https://www.ghostscript.com/index.html
- https://inkscape.org/~frmdstryr/%E2%98%85inkcut#:~:text=An%20free%20and%20open%20source,cutter%2C%20plotter%2C%20or%20engraver.
External resources/API
Other interesting projects I discovered doing this:
- https://cuttle.xyz/
- https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib/tree/develop/lib/node_modules/%40stdlib
- https://strapi.io/
Other articles on the subject of plotters:
- https://mattwidmann.net/notes/pen-plotter-graphics-software/
- https://andrewsleigh.com/learning-processing/2018/12/svg-to-hpgl.html