Rubber Stamping Machine

A new plotter arrived from Bantam Tools the other day, it's called the ArtFrame and it's supposed to be a drawing machine. However the moment I saw it I thought "I think I could get that thing to hold some rubber stamps!"

You basically send GCODE to the machine, which are instructions for it to move to x,y and z locations, x & y control where it moves to, for example 10cm across, 15cm up, while the z controls the height.

There's one more important setting which is speed, which allows you to control how fast it does those things. So it didn't take much to write some code to tell the machine to move over an ink pad, quickly lower and raise the stamp to ink it up, move to where you want the stamp to be, and then quick stamp down.

So I grabbed my cat stamp and gave it a go.