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Kurvengefahr

browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters

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A few years ago I made a pen plotter attachment for Prusa MK4 (https://www.printables.com/model/827264-pen-plotter-attachme...) 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 or a GRBL plotter, I'd very much appreciate it you gave it a try and give feedback. As I don't own those, I did all the testing with a hardware mock on STM32, so I am not sure how well it works attached to an actual plotter.Source code and docs are on GitHub: https://github.com/tibordp/kurvengefahr

HN · launched Jul 12, 2026 · 20 upvotes (top 28%) · 1 view

Niche: computer-aided design software · 169 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes Browser-based CAM software to convert vector artwork (SVG/canvas) into standard G-code toolpaths is well within the capabilities of client-side JavaScript and standard geometry algorithms.

Discussion

6 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: aoer-plotty-rs (Rust plotter library)

Concerns raised: Shift constraint doesn't work when editing off-curve nodes, only for new on-curve nodes

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #58 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 249 days after the earliest competitor.

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