Piccolo, a Mini CNC Artbot

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2012/02/16 @ 11:00 am
Category Arduino, Art & Design

Piccolo is a pocket-sized stand-alone CNC platform. For less than $70, you can assemble your personal Arduino-compatible kit for tinkering, developing and deploying basic 3D output. Be it plotting quick graffiti, printing a one-off business card on the fly, or multiple Piccolos working together to create a large mural, this kit provides a platform for experimenting with 2D or 3D digital fabrication at a small scale. This open-source design emphasizes simplicity, and is entirely composed of digitally manufactured components and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware.

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13 Responses to Piccolo, a Mini CNC Artbot

Joe Pitz on February 16th, 2012 at 11:29 am said:

John, Are we being just a bit premature here?

No image on the blog post, or difficulty in rendering the image? No web page yet?

Or is your definition of “small scale” different than mine?

I have heard of pre-release, but this is a new concept for me.

Thanks

Joe

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Thomas S. on February 16th, 2012 at 11:40 am said:

Any chance we can get this in the shed? I have a giftcard and think I found the perfect thing to buy it on… So cute

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Bob on February 16th, 2012 at 11:43 am said:

So are printers and plotters “CNC artbots” too?

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- rocketguy1701 on February 16th, 2012 at 12:36 pm said:
  
  With the right firmware, I don’t see why not…
  
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Akiba on February 16th, 2012 at 3:31 pm said:

This is a job….for kickstarter-man. It’s an awesome project. I’d like to have one myself, just so I can draw strange murals on my windows and have my neighbors across the street think I’m stranger than I already am.

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Alex Haw on February 16th, 2012 at 4:20 pm said:

could i modify it to create a “pick and place” component setter, or would it tip over?

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- Mycroftxxx on February 17th, 2012 at 5:42 pm said:
  
  I believe that this is what C-Clamps are made for. However, I am not sure if there will be sufficient extra pins on the Arduino-based hardware to drive an additional motor for the vacuum source.
  
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Thomas S. on February 16th, 2012 at 7:03 pm said:

This would make a great electronics-art project…. Get a small “swarm” of them, and give them a large workspace and lots of markers….

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David (@Crisp3dot14) on February 17th, 2012 at 5:26 am said:

seriously, please change the last three letters of the branding…

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k4gdw on February 21st, 2012 at 8:55 am said:

Hmmmm… I bet it could be used to draw simple circuit boards with either a sharpie (for etch resist) or conductive ink.

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