New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters
Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters 5 by tibordp | 1 comments on Hacker News. A few years ago I made a pen plotter attachment for Prusa MK4 ( https://ift.tt/NjSpCIt... ) and at the time I didn't have a good way to turn artwork into G-code for it, and I put the project on ice for a while. I recently wanted to dabble in line art again and made a small browser app to make it easier. As agentic AI tools of 2026 are quite addictive, it rather quickly grew into something quite a bit more - an integrated browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters that covers everything from importing existing artwork, creating artwork from scratch, preparing for plotting and hardware integration. It includes some off-beat features like a Logo interpreter for turtle art and Graves RNN for handwriting synthesis and in addition to 3D printer pretending to be pen plotters it now also supports actual pen plotters based on EBB (AxiDraw) and GRBL firmwares through Web Serial. If you own an AxiDraw ...